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County Schools Seeking
Override of Ford s Veto

By JOE GILLILAND
Times Education Writer
The Roanoke County School

f Board decided Tuesday to
write Rep. M. Caldwell Butler,

I R-Va., urging him to override
President Gerald Ford’s veto

I i of the Education Appropria-
f tions Bill.

The board was told the coun-
ty will lose more than $200,000
in federal funds if the veto is
sustained by Congress. The
state would lose $66.2 million,
said Bob Johnson, Uniserv di-
rector for the education asso-
ciation in the county.

The county would lose about
$90,000 in federal impacted
funds alone, Johnson said.

Bays Wilson, assistant super-
intendent, said the county
could lose another $140,000 in
reductions in programs for the
educationally deprived, the
gifted and vocational educa-
tion.

The loss figures are the dif-
ference between the Education
Appropriations Bill and the
program Ford has proposed to
the Congress, Johnson said.

Education association fig-
ures show 49 per cent of feder-
al education funds would be
deleted from the federal bud-
get if Ford’s veto holds up,
Johnson said.

"‘Ford is throwing the onus
back on localities at the wrong
time,” Johnson told the board.
“They can’t handle it at this
time.”

’He said it isn’t fair that Ar-
lington would keep its $6 mil-

lion for impacted funds for
class A students (children of
federal employes Mng on fed-
eral' property) when Roanoke
County’s $90,000 for class B
students (children of federal
employes not living on federal
property) would be cut,” John-
son said.

He told the board Butler is
not “vehemently opposed to
the bill” and that he has indi-
cated to education association
officials he would vote to over-
ride the veto if he could be
shown localities in his district

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would be hurt enough to over-
ride his concerns about the bill
being inflationary.

The National Education As-
sociation has mounted a cam-
paign to get the veto
overridden. In Western Virgin-
ia, 36 local education associa-
tions are running a large
advertisement in this issue of
The Roanoke Times urging citi-
zens to contact their congress-
men.

It says, in part, “$66.2 mil-
lion. That’s how much Virginia
schools will lose if Congress-

men Butler, (W. C.) Daniel,
(William C.) Wampler and (J.
Kenneth) Robinson do not vote
Sept. 9 to help override the
President’s veto of Congress’
Education Appropriations
Bill.”

“If the President’s veto
stands, the quality of education
in Virginia will fall,” the adver-
tisement says.

Even if the veto is overrid-
den, Johnson told the school
board, federal funding would
only continue at last year’s lev-
el. There would be no increase.

THE NEWS, Lynchburg, Va., Wed., Sept. 3, 1975

bmai Accord

Pleases Butler

WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler, a 6th Dis-
trict Virginia Republican, said
Tuesday he believes the newly
signed peace agreement in the
Sinai signals a step toward the
stabilization of Mideast ten-
sion.

This, said Butler from his
office here, was the first objec-
tive of U. S. foreign policy.

THE DAILY ADVANCE

LYNCHBURG, VA., FRIDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 5, 1975 ■3 27 1

Butler criticizes pressure
by government on farmers

BOB WIMER

AMHERST - Sixth District
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, a self-
proclaimed city boy from
Roanoke, told Amherst County
farmers Thursday night that
government regulatory agen-
cies are putting undue pres-
sures on the nation’s farmers.

Speaking at the annual
meeting of the Amherst Coun-
ty Farm Bureau, Butler sin-
gled out the Occupational Safe-
ty and Health Administration
(OSHA) and the Environmen-
tal Protection Agency (EPA) as
two agencies making it partic-
ularly difficult for small
farmers these days.

He noted that as soon as a
farmer hires “even one part-
time worker, you become re-
sponsible for fulfilling a
number of cumbersome and
expensive regulations.’’

The OSHA regulations, he
continued, “are identical to
those which apply to farms em-
ploying 100 or more workers,
and in some cases they were
designed primarily for in-
dustry.”

Butler said that tractor man-
ufacturers have advised him
that new protection devices on
tractors, such as roll bars and
protective devices on gears,
belts and chains will drive up
prices on the average of $325.
The equipment will be re-
quired under OSHA regu-
lations on all tractors manufac-
tured after Oct. 25, 1976.

He added, however, that
“tractor accidents have been a
major contribution to acciden-

tal farm deaths and this is a
factor which must be weighed
against the additional cost.”

Butler called EPA’s regu-
lation of pesticides of major
importance to farmers. He said
legislation in 1972 gave EPA
authority to classify and regu-
late pesticides, which has
meant increased costs for
farmers in terms of either us-
ing less effective pesticides or
paying licensed applicators to
handle chemicals that have
been restricted.

“When EPA suspends or
bans a pesticide,” the con-
gressman said, “it can’t be
used at all” and substitutes

cost more and have to be ap-
plied more frequently.

He noted that pending legis-
lation may give the Depart-
ment of Agriculture concur-
rent jurisdiction with EPA
over pesticide regulations and
said that “EPA is lacking a
little common sense and agri-
cultural background.”

In other business at the
meeting held in the Refectory
at Sweet Briar College, Jan Os-
inga was re-elected president
of the 190-member organiza-
tion. Edgar Fitzgerald was re-
elected vice president and
Edwin Fitzgerald was elected
secretary-treasurer.

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school cut

j Art Whittaker has written
X ° e P- Caldwell Butler express-
(X in 8 his deep concern over the
\\ President’s veto of the Educa-
tion Appropriations Bill and
asking the congressman to vote
to override the veto.

Said Whittaker, Republican
candidate for the Roanoke
County Board of Supervisors
from the Cave Spring District:

"I have advised Congress-
^ man Butler that the full federal
funds now being allocated to
^ our community must be contin-
v\ ued and that we cannot afford
to lose or cut any educational
dollars if we are to insure that
we maintain a program of qual-
ity education.”

Whittaker noted that the
Roanoke County school budget
totals $32 million, which takes
79 cents of each tax dollar.

“I just don’t see how we can
locally make up lost federal
funding without creating re-
ductions in other county needs
and expenditures,” said Whit-
taker.

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w£? P ' C ?! dwe11 Butler says
whatever his vote will be on a
measure to override President
r ord s veto of the education
appropriations bill, it will be
one of the toughest to cast
since he has been in Congress.

“I’m reserving judgment on
J a| „ he said - “It’s pretty criti-

Butler said he has been going
down the line in trying to sup §

P°jJ"8 Ford in his e, torts to
hold down federal spending.

, .. ( .^ rd vetoed the education
bi 1 because it called for $ 1.5
billion more in spending than
he wanted.)

My inclination is to support
the President (on the educa-

l‘ on b,l H’ but the impact is
greater than anything that has

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In his comments, Butler said
he regrets that several educa-
tion associations went to the
expense of running big ads ask-
ing people to call Buffer and
three other western Virginia
congressmen and ask them to
vote to override the Presi-
dent's veto on Sept. 9.

., Th ® ads t he that were run in

Th , Foanoke Times and
The World-News on Wednes-
day cost $848.

Butler said he would have
preferred individual letters.

Ozzie

Osborne

Staff Writer

m ., t , ak ' n S ‘he position.” he
said, that were not writing
Congressman Butler or any-
one. ’ y

(Butler explained that if the
Fordvet ° holds up, federal aid
to education will continue at
the 1975 level. He added how-

rilnt' l hat ,llany su Perinten-
dents his office has contacted
think that ievel was too low.)

In Botetourt County, Harold
Wilhelm, chairman of the voca-
tional school and chairman of
the county board of supervi-
sors, said the bill Ford vetoed
has about 9.4 per cent more in
vocational money for Botetourt
than the oid one has.

Therefore, he said, he’d like
to see Ford's veto overridden
since a new bill might not have
as much vocational aid for the
county.

Meanwhile, in Washington
two Virginia congressmen said
they ve decided to vote to over-

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ROANOKE TIMES

Friday, September 5, 1975

, 2 T° Oppose School Veto

By WAYNE WOODLIEF W

_ Times Washington Bureau f h f £ 4 . 2 .! ote - wi ‘h six Virginians ...

By WAYNE WOODLIEF
Times Washington Bureau

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Pressure Un * armers

Criticized By Butler

AMHERST - Sixth District parttime worker, you become
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler told responsible for fulfilling a

Amherst County farmers number of cumbersome and

Thursday night that expensive regulations.”

government regulatory The regulations, he said,

agencies are putting undue “are identical to those which
pressures on the nation’s apply to farms employing 100
farmers. or more workers, and in some

Speaking at the annual cases they were designed
meeting of the Amherst primarily for industry.”

County Farm Bureau, Butler

Administration and the

Environmental Protection
Agency as two units making it
particularly difficult for small
farmers.

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farmer hires “even one

singled out the Occupational
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THE NEWS-VIRGINL

Waynesboro, Va.

isday, September 9, 1975

Rep. Butler
To Attend
Function Here

Sixth District Congressman
M. Caldwell Butler will be the
guest of honor at a fund raising
breakfast in Waynesboro on
Tuesday, Sept. 16.

The event, sponsored by the
Republican Party of
Waynesboro, will be attended by
Del. J. Marshall Coleman,
candidate for the 24th Senatorial
District seat; A. R. Giesen,
candidate for the 15th
Legislative District seat; and
Robert C. Horn, candidate for
the 15th Legislative District
seat.

The breakfast, to be held at
Perkins Pancake House, 2120 W.
Main St., will offer an op-
portunity for area citizens to
meet and talk with Rep. Butler.
To meet the needs of varying
work schedules, the event will
start at 6:45 a.m. and allow
arrival and departure through 9
a.m.

Mrs. Lois Kindt, chairman of
the Republican Party of
Waynesboro, stated that “the
fund raising breakfast will serve
both as an opportunity for in-
terested persons to meet with
Representative Butler and an
opportunity to meet the
Republican candidates for
Virginia House Senate seats.”
Mrs. Kindt also indicated that
“the invitation to attend the
treakfast is extended to citizens
in not only the Waynesboro area
but also to citizens in Staunton
and Augusta County.”
Reservations may be made by
calling either Leon P. Harris at
942-5877 or Lois Kindt at 942-2886.

12 Staunton, Va.,

Leader,

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Tuesday,

Sept. 9, 1975

ASQC will hear Butler

WAYNESBORO - U.S. Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler will speak
• at the Blue Ridge Section,
American Society for Quality
Control, annual management
night program at Waynesboro
Country Club Sept. 16.

The program recognizes the
executive management per-

sonnel of member plants.

According to a Blue Ridge
Section spokesmen, the public
is invited to attend.

Persons interested in making
reservations are asked to
contact Alan Warner at 886-
0751 before 4 p.m. Sept. 12.

S' 17 -

THE NEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, Va. Wednesday, September 10 , 1975

Is Sept . 16

Sixth District Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler will be the speaker at
the annual Management Night
meeting of the Blue Ridge
Section, American Society for
Quality Control. The meeting
will be held Sept. 16 at the
Waynesboro Country Club.

The Management Night
program recognizes executive
management personnel at
member plants.

Those interested in making
reservations for the dinner
meeting should telephone Alan
Warner at 886-0751 prior to 4
p.m. Friday.

A spokesman said that the
meeting is open to the public.

THE ROANOKE TIMES, Wednesday, September 10. 1975

Rules Sam e in Interim

Corps To Review Lake Stand

WASHINGTON - The Army Corps e
Engineers will restudy its declaration that
Smith Mountain Lake is a navigable body
of water.

If the corps should decide the lake is
not navigable, it would halt its program re-
quiring permits for the construction of
docks, boathouses and similar structures
along the lake’s 500-mile shore.

The restudy was announced Tuesday
in a release from Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
of the 6th District and Rep. W. C. Daniel of
the 5th Congressional District.

They warned that if the corps recon-
firms its designation that the lake is navig-
able the permits program will continue
unless the corps jurisdiction is removed by
legislation or a court decision.

The corps said it will conduct the re-
study because of public concern over the
permits program and concerns expressed
by the congressmen.

The congressmen were informed of
the restudy by Victor V. Veysey, assistant
secretary of the Army for civil works.

The corps declared Smith Mountain
Lake navigable in 1965 partly because
boats are brought there from other states
for recreational use.

However, the corps did not initiate its
permits program on the lake until Apri o
this year because of a manpower shortage,
it has said.

Then it acted because of complaints
about navigation hazards posed by partial-
ly submerged barrels that have broken
away from floating docks, it contends.

The corps gave no timetable for com-
pleting the study, but said the permits pro-
gram will continue until the study is
finished.

“The study will not examine the pros
and cons of the permit program jtself
the congressmen’s statement said. This is
simply a commitment from the corps to
re-examine the legal basis on which they
operate the program.”

Many residents and businessmen in
the lake area have been upset by the corps’
permits program and it has resulted in leg-
islation being introduced in Congress to
redefine “navigable waters” to exclude
Smith Mountain Lake. The legislation has
slim chances of passage, said Butlers ad-
ministrative assistant, Chuck Wilson.

The dissatisfaction also has prompted
Atty Gen. Andrew P. Miller to file suit in
U.S District Court to remove the lake
from the corps’ jurisdiction.

And on a third front, the Smith Moun-
tain Lake Association is attempting to
draft an ordinance which, if passed by the
four counties around the lake, would con-
trol problems caused by floating barrels.

Regardless of the outcome of the
corps’ study. Department of the Army per-
mits will continue to be required for dis-
charging dredge or fill materials in Smth
Mountain Lake under regulations pub-
lished by the engineers July 25.

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Saunders accepts finance
post with American Party

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Warren J). Saunders, the

Ammcaii-Eart^

(fo ngress f ro m Virginia’s Sixth
Distri ct i n 1974, has accepted

for the American Party in Vir-

■ Saunders led all American
Party congressional candidates
throughout the nation by u re-
ceiving 26 pe r cen t_of the to taL
vottT in jgeTh ree-wa y race for
p House seat held bv Rep. M,
|dwell Butler, al tepublican.
A native of Bedford, Saun-
ders was formerly Bedford
County chairman of the Ameri-
can Party and has been active
in party affairs for a number
of years. He heads a fertilizer
material distribution business
in Amherst County.

Meanwhile, George Melton,
executive director of the party
in Virginia, said a $60,000
budget for the coming year
was approved by the State Cen-
tral Committee at a meeting
this past weekend in Rich-
mond.

“This new budget will help
put us in a stronger position
for the 1976 presidential contest
and also for the congressional
elections then,” Melton said.
“Our national party slogan is
‘The Americans are coming’
and we feel that increased pub-
lic sentiment at the grass roots
which today is so strongly
critical of the performance of
officials in Washington will
greatly aid our growth.”

Announcement also was
made today that David G.
White of Roseland,, a field rep-
resentative in the Saunders
campaign, has been named to
the new post of director of

the ®

field operations for the party
in Virginia.

In his new post, White will
work with local and district
chairmen to strengthen exist-
ing county and district or-
ganizations, and with individ-
ual party members in other
areas to build and coordinate
new local organizations. He
will also assist in the overall
financing operations.

A Vietnam War Army veter-
an, White’s participation in
Virginia political activities
dates back to his student days
at Washington and Lee Univer-
sity where he took part in the
1968 GOP Mock Convention.

White has been active in the
American Party since 1968 and
in the Saunders campaign in
1974 was instrumental in set-
ting up campaign org*"' na-
tions throughout the Sixth dis-
trict and was liaison man for
Saunders.

18 THE NEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, Va. W^nesday, September 10, 1975

Smith Mountain

Lake Study Set

WASHINGTON (AP) - The
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
has announced it will take an-
other look at whether Smith
Mountain Lake near Roanoke is
a navigable body of water .

Virginia Reps. M. Caldwell
Butler of the 6th District and
W. C. “Dan” Daniel of the 5th
District announced the restudy
Tuesday and said it was re-
sponse to public concern over a
permit program for construc-
tion of private structures such
as docks along the lake.

Should the restudy find ttfat
the lake is not navigable, the
permit program would be dis-
continued, the congressmen
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Butler swayed
by loss of funds

Vol. 146-No.

By WAYNE WOODLIEF
Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON — A poten-
tial loss of $66 million in educa-
tion funds for Virginia caused
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler of
Roanoke to “reluctantly” vote
to override President Ford’s
veto of the education appropri-
ations bill.

Roanoke County alone would
have lost $550,000 if the veto
had been upheld, Butler said
today.

Butler was among seven Vir-
ginians who joined the land-
slide that overrode the
President, 379-41, in the House
yesterday.

Six Virginians had voted
against the nearly $8 billion
education bill when it cleared
the House July 16. Butler, in
Lynchburg for a speech on that
date, missed the vote. Only
three Virginia members sup-
ported the bill.

The Virginia delegation re-
versed itself from 6-3 against i
the measure to 7-3 to keep it ‘
alive after agressive lobbying
by state and local educators.

The vote switchers included
all but one of Virginia’s five

Republicans. They apparently
were relieved earlier this week
when White House legislative
aides, noting an almost sure
loss on the education bill, said
they wouldn’t press for a “stick

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by your President’ * vote.

Rep. William C. Wampler, R-
Va., who had joined two North-
ern Virginia Democrats in sup-
porting the bill on passage in
July, voted for it again yester-
day, citing the benefits of fed-
eral education aid for 9th
District school children and
community colleges.

Only Tidewater Rep. G. Wil-
liam Whitehurst, R-Va., and
two conservative Virginia
Democrats, Reps. David Satter-
field and Dan Daniel, voted to
sustain the veto. They claimed
the bill was $1.5 billion over the
President’s budget and would ,
have increased inflation.

Butler said he “reluctantly ^
concluded” that a veto over-
ride was “in the long-term best
interest of my constituents” r
after talking with school offi-
cials from the 6th District and
from the State Board of Educa-
tion.

“This is the frist time 1 have
broken with the President to
any great degree” on federal
spending, Butler said. He ex-
plained that if the veto were
sustained, federal education
aid would he continued by the
Ford administration at a level
that would mean severe cut-
backs in schools and colleges in
various programs.

Butler also said a veto over-
ride was necessary to “lay to
rest the uncertainty surround-
ing the availability of federal
assistance to education’ so ,

that officials could begin plan- 1

ning their use of the money. L>

Staunton, Va.,

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Leader, '^Wednesday, S

GOP plans

fund-

raising

breakfast

WAYNESBORO— U.S. Rep
M. Caldwell Butler will be
guest of honor at a fund-
raising breakfast here from
6:45-9 a.m., Sept. 16.

The event, sponsored by the
Republican Party of
Waynesboro, will be attended
by Del. J. Marshall Coleman,
candidate for the 24th
Senatorial District seat; A. R.
Geisen Jr., candidate for the
15th Legislative District seat,
and Robert C. Horn, candidate
for the 15th Legislative District
seat.

The breakfast, to be held at
Perkins Pancake House, will
offer an opportunity for area
residents to meet and talk with
Rep. Butler.

Reservations may be made
by telephoning either Leon P
Harris at 942-5877 or Mrs. Lois
Kindt at 942-2886.

DAILY ADVANCE

LYNCHBURG, VA., WEDNESDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 10, 1975 15

— —243

Virginia congressmen help
override education veto

By The Associated Press

Seven of Virginia’s 10 con-
gressmen, including all but
one of the state delegation’s
five Republicans, voted with
the huge majority Tuesday as
the House overrode President
Ford’s veto of the $7.9 billion
education appropriations bill.

In the lopsided 379-41 vote,
the only Virginians voting to
uphold the veto of what the
President called a 'fiscally un-
sound bill were Republican G.
William Whitehurst of the 2nd
District and Democrats David
Satterfield of the 3rd and W. C.
“Dan” Daniel of the 5th.

| Voting to override were Re-
publicans M. Caldwell Butler
of the 6th District, J. Kenneth
Robinson of the 7th, Robert
Daniel of the 4th and William
Wampler of the 9th, and Demo-
crats Thomas Downing of the
1st, Herbert Harris of the 8th

and Joseph Fisher of the 10th.

Butler said he voted to over-
ride the veto because he felt
that sustaining it “would have
had an adverse impact on the
quality of education in Virgin-
ia.”

But it was, Butler said, “a
very difficult question for me,”
adding:

“I am well aware of the im-
portance of holding down fed-
eral spending... I was faced
with the simple question of
whether we will have educa-
tion assistance this year in an
amount that will be mean-
ingful to the state of
Virginia. ..I came down on the
side of going forward with the
assistance.”

If the veto had been sus-
tained, Butler said, “it would
have had the effect of reducing
the total amount of federal
education funds available to
Virginia by $66 million — near-

ly 50 per cent below the pre-
sent level.”

Programs that would have
been severely affected, Butler
said, included assistance to de-
segregation programs, basic
vocational education, work
study and cooperative educa-
tion in the public schools; as-
sistance to community colleges
and land grant colleges, and,
assistance for public library
services.

These programs, the 6th Dis-
trict congressman said, “are
very meaningful part of the
education process.”

Rep.Robinson, a fiscal con-
servative, said he voted to over-
ride the veto only “because it
would have served no useful
purpose to prolong the uncer-
tainty as to educational fund-
ing.”

It had become apparent,

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Robinson said, "that a con-
certed effort to sustain the
veto and draft a more fiscally
realistic bill was not being
made.” t . . .

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a compromise bill would be
hammered out, “taking into ac-
count the severe deficit situ-
ation,” and thought such a
compromise should have been
attempted.

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parentiy was swaye
gram from the Pri)
County School Bo«
that he vote to o'
veto.

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if the veto were su?
school system woul(
$533,000 in federal ir
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that includes Ft.
has a large number
dependents eligible
aid.

» _ t THE ROANOKE TIMES. Wednesday, September 10, 1975

Virginians Aid Override

^ By JACK BETTS r . . . 1

Tim«« 117 L • It hoH A. 1 tt - .

By JACK BETTS
Times Washington Bureau

tom oSb

House-turned almost compR around

.dentt ay T V ° t ting 7 ' 3 t0 override the S
‘dents veto of a $7.9 billion if,?

“-ar mtsEs&’s: ^ss m „ . .

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nis recommpnHufiAn

It had passed the House July 16 on a
smaner vote, 370 to 42, and the Senate the
next day on an 80 to 15 vote. Virginia inde-
pendent Harry F. Byrd Jr., voted for the
bill while Republican William L Scott
opposed it. The Senate will take up the ov
vernde vote late today. V

F °fl! et0 ! dthe WB-which

^^.e.s.ationlwiK;^

when the bill passed the House last July.

, ln , Tues ^y. all but three— Republican G
William Whitehurst of Virginia Beach and
Democrats David Satterfield of Rich
mond, and W. C. “Dan” Daniel of Dan-
ville-voted with the majority as the
. House overrode the veto 379 - 41 . *

his recommendation.

When the House first passed the bill
Republicans Whitehurst, J.. Kenneth Rob-’
inson of Winchester, and R. W Daniel of
pnng Grove, and Democrats Satterfield,
Daniel and Thomas Downing of Newport

& °? P p Sea Republican M. CalXeU
Butler of Roanoke missed the vote while
Republican William C. Wampler of Bris-

toi, and Democrats Herbert Harris and
Joseph Fisher of Northern Virginia voted

Vir O ^ Cal i e uI!? a l i0n associations across
/ r . gI , ma lobbied extensively with the
states congressional delegation to set
congressmen to vote to override Ford. The

wo C te e ^t°tPrc niZa i i0nS ran advertisements,
wrote letters and some went to Washing-

ton to talk with Congressmen in person.

R ® ut n T “ e s da y, Robinson, Downing and
R; Dame! switched their votes in favor

them 6 bl ’ and Butler C3St his vote with

Whitehurst, who was a college teacher
a nd dean for 18 years, said last week he
couldn t vote for the bill because it was ex
cessive. “We just have to draw a line on aU

>f Education Veto

this spending, or we will bring about the
demise of the financial system of this
country.” He stuck by that position Tues-
day.

Before the vote, Downing had been ex-
pected to. switch in favor of the bill, as he
did, but R. W. Daniel and Butler had re-
served judgment.

Daniel said Tuesday that he, too, was
concerned about the cost of the bill, but
said he decided to switch because he
couldn’t find out “what level of fund-
ing... will be available if this bill’s veto is
sustained. “No compromise is under con-
sideration.”

Butler said he voted to override the
veto because he thought it “important
that we lay to rest the uncertainty sur-

rounding the availability of federal assis-
tance to education.”

He said it had been difficult to swal-
low the $1.5 billion by which the bill ex-
ceeded Ford’s recommendaton, but added
that he had checked with superintendents
of schools in his districts and with the
state board of education and said, “I am
satisfied that my conclusion as to the ad-
verse impact of sustaining this veto is
substantiated.”

The appropriations bill provides funds
for federally-assisted programs over the
next two school years. It includes $2.4 bil-
lion for elementary and secondary educa-
tion; $660 million for impact aid; $2.4
billion for higher education; $669 million
for adult education and and $218 million
for libraries.”

Page 14 Buena Vista News, Thursday, September 11, 1975

Aide

Coming

A representative from
Congressman M. Caldwell
Butler’s office will be in
Buena Vista Tuesday, Sept.
16, to aid any person having
difficulties with federal
agencies.

The representative, Jen
Gregson, will be at the
Buena Vista Municipal
Building from 9 to 10:30 a.m.

People seeking aid are
asked to bring their Social
Secruity number, VA claim
number or any other papers
and correspondence relative
to their problem.

i._ -i.

SEPTEMBER 11,

Butler Aide to be in
Highland and Bath

WASHINGTON, D. C. - A re-
presentative of M. Caldwell But-
ler will be in Bath and Highland
counties this Wednesday, Sept.
17. Anyone wishing to discuss any
problems he is having with the
federal government may come by
the courthouse in either county on
that day.

The representative will be in
Bath County at the courthouse
in Warm Springs from 11 a.m.
to 12:30 p.m., and in Highland
County at the courthouse in Mon-
terey from 2 to 4 p.m. Persons
who plan to attend the meeting
should bring any correspondence
concerning the matter they wish
to discuss.

PAGE 4 THE RECORDER. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 11, 1975

Congressman Butler

Rep. Butler to
Speak Monday
In Monterey

MONTEREY - Sixth District
Congressman M. Caldwell But-
ler is scheduled to speak at the
Highland County Courthouse on
Monday, Sept. 15, at 8 p.m. But-
ler has indicated that he will
speak primarily on the energy
crisis and the plight of the agri-
cultural community, but will also
touch cm other congressional ac-
tivities. All interested citizens
of Highland and Bath counties are
urged to attend this meeting.

Congressman Butler is
presently conducting an annual
farm forum at the McCormick
Experimental Station at Steeles
Tavern. At the same time, But-
ler has been a member of the
House Judiciary Committee and
serves cm the Civil and Const! -
tui tonal Rights Subcommittee. He
has recently been appointed to the
House committee on Small Busi-
ness and is one of two mem-
bers from the House of Represen-
tatives serving on the American
Revolution Bicentennial Admini-
stration.

Also attending the meeting will
be delegate J. Marshall Cole-
man, candidate for the state sen-
ate, A. R. “Pete" Giesen and R.
H. “Bob" Horn, candidates for
the House of Delegates.

277

V*.. THURSDAY SEPTEMBER II. 197J
SIX THE DAILY REVIEW.

Butler plans
appearance
in Monterey

Sixth District Rep. M.

Caldwell Butler announced
today that he will make a I
public appearance at the
Highland County Court- g
house in Monterey Sept. |

15, 8 p.m.

Butler said that he will ^
take the opportunity to
report to his Highland
County constituents on
some of the current
activities of the Congress.

“I invite all of my
constituents in this area
to join me at the
Courthouse. Of course, I I
am anxious to hear any I
concerns that they might I
wish to share with me.” a
The meeting will be 1
sponsored by the •
Republican party. Butler
said that R. H. “Bob”

Horn, candidate for the
Virginia House of
Delegates from the 15th
district, Arthur R. “Pete”

Giesen Jr., candidate for
the Virginia House of
Delegates from the 15th
District, and Del. J.

Marshall Coleman,
candidate from the 24th
Senatorial district, will
also attend.

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By ROBERT COOK
Work being done under the
$450,000 grant from the U.S.
Department of Housing and
Urban Development (HUD)
may not be readily visible,

| but the federal money is
being used to make im-
provements in the storm
drainage system of Buena
Vista.

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HUD grant is the chan-
nelization, straightening and
widening of Indian Gap Run
south of Magnolia Avenue.

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federal grant, have already mplimenting them
cleared away brush and rkin S together with
trees from along the stream
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she said during an interview v
last week.

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terested in journalism.

In its present job the crew
has found the forestry
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directs the brush clearing
and shimmies up trees that
are being cleared from the
creek bank.

Mrs. Dyer had words of
praise for her entire crew,

en hauled to Glen Maury
irk for landfill purposes.
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lied on city property are
jing sawed into firewood,
rs. Dyer said the smaller
eces suitable for fireplaces
:e being stored and later
/ill be sold to the public.
JLarger logs, suitable for
outdoor fires are being saved
for use at Glen Maury Park.

Aside from saving the
wood and utilizing the brush,
the crew is also cautious
about not leaving any brush
or wood in the creek, ac-
cording to Mrs. Dyer. She
explained that if a felled tree
or piles of brush were left in
the stream they would be an
obstruction to the water flow

in case of heavy rains and
would cause the creek to
back up and flood quicker.

Channelization of the
stream is scheduled to
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project will not relief
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city many city residents will
be aided.

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way for the project from
landowners, Mrs. Dyer said J
that one elderly man broke
down in tears and his hand
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creek to back up and over-
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The crew that Mrs. Dyer
supervises is comprised of
“ten men with varied talents
and from all walks of life,”
she said during an interview
last week.

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has found the forestry
student invaluable as he
directs the brush clearing
and shimmies up trees that
are being cleared from the
creek bank.

Mrs. Dyer had words of
praise for her entire crew,

complimenting them on
working together with “no
dissention and no cross
words.”

As the crew clears the
brush from the bank it is
loaded on “Big Red”, a new
red-cabbed dump truck
purchased by the city and
being rented to the federally
funded project. The brush is
then hauled to Glen Maury
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felled on city property are
being sawed into firewood.
Mrs. Dyer said the smaller
pieces suitable for fireplaces
are being stored and later
will be sold to the public.
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outdoor fires are being saved
for use at Glen Maury Park.

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wood and utilizing the brush,
the crew is also cautious
about not leaving any^ brush
or wood in the creek, ac-
cording to Mrs. Dyer. She
explained that if a felled tree
or piles of brush were left in
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way for the project from
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pleased that something was
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home from being flooded
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Education veto override
praised by VEA officials

RICHMOND (AP) - Tired
but happy V irginia Education
Association officiate have re-
turned from their''' successful
around-the-clock lobbying ef-
fort that ended with Congress
overriding President Ford’s
veto of a $7.9 billion education
appropriations bill.

“We take our hats off to
those congressmen who took
the stand they did for educa-
tion,” Richard Pulley, VEA
director of governmental rela-
tions, said Wednesday after he
and about a half-dozen other
association officials returned
from Washington.

targets o f their
-efforts^. we re~~ threeVirginia _
jcongressmen who had voted
against the“ bill in the House
and one other whom it was felt
would have voted against it if
he had been present.

And all four - Republican
Reps. Robert Daniel, J. Ken-
neth Robinson and M. Caldwell
Butler and Democratic Rep.
Thomas Downing — voted to
override the presidential veto.

Siding with President Ford
were Democratic Reps. David
E. Satterfield and W. C. “Dan”
Daniel and Republican Rep. G
William Whitehurst, while
Democratic Reps. Herbert
Harris and Joseph Fisher and
GOP Rep. Rep. William

Wampler voted to override.

Had the veto been sustained,
Virginia would have lost some
$66.2 million in federal educa-
tion money during the current
fiscal year.

“We think this was a tre-
mendous victory,” said VEA
executive director David John-
son.

Virginia had the best
planned and best coordinated'
lobbying effort in Wash-
ington, he said, because it had
to overcome a large percentage
of negative votes and propor-
tionately one of the largest
amounts of federal funds to
lose.

The whole educational
community lobbied for this,”
said Pulley, noting that teach-
ers footed the bill for large
newspaper ads urging citizens
to write the four congressmen
and ask them to vote to over-
ride the veto.

Apparently it worked,
because Butler showed us a
stack of letters a foot high and
said, ‘Your folks have really
done a job,” Pulley said.

He added that an aide to
Rep. Robert Daniel had said
the congressman received
more than 600 letters.

About half of the $66 million
Virginia would have lost was
in federal impact aid given to

states with high percentages of
federal employes and military
personnel.

(Butler’s office said today no
figures on fund allocations
could be obtained for cities
and counties in the 6th Dis-
trict, with the exception of
Roanoke County, which would
get $500,000. Included in the 6th
District are the cities of
Lynchburg and Bedford and
the counties of Amherst and
Bedford.)

Johnson said if the veto had
been sustained, some educa-
tional programs would have
been completely wiped out. In
this category were $4.9 million
now being spent for emer-
gency school aid, $5.6 million
for direct student loans in
higher education and nearly $3
million for various programs
in occupational, vocational and
adult education.

Pulley said the lobbyists
sought to refute the
President’s contention that the
bill was inflationary.

“We showed them that the
House bill .was only 3.2 per cent
over what was spent in 1974-75
which could hardly be con-
sidered inflationary when you
realize that general economic
inflation during the period was
more than 12 per cent ” he
said.

BWAOV iff

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■

VEA Lobbyists Cheer
Override of Ford Veto

22 RICHMOND (AP)— Weary officials of
the Virginia Education Association were
‘iexuberant Wednesday over the congres-
sional override of President Ford’s veto of
ia $7.9 billion education appropriations
{bill.

J ;■ Sustaining the House bill averts the
* loss of some $66.2 million in federal educa-
J don aid to Virginia during the current fis-
cal year.

“We take our hats off to those con-
i gressmen who took the stand they did for
; education,” said Richard Pulley, VEA di-
ifdctor of governmental relations.

| He and about a half-dozen other VEA
iofficials had just returned from Washing-
ton where they had spent several days in-
volved in a non-stop, virtually around-the-
Jctock lobbying effort against the veto.

! Their primary targets were three Vir-
ginia congressmen who had voted against
tthe bill in the House and one of their col-
ffeagues whom it was felt would have voted
^against it if he had been present.

s All four, Republican Reps. Robert
^Daniel, J. Kenneth Robinson and M. Cald-
well Butler and Democratic Rep. Thomas
^Downing, voted to override the Ford veto,
j Siding with the President were Demo-
cratic Reps. David E. Satterfield and W. C.
J“Dan” Daniel and Republican Rep. G.
:William Whitehurst.

We think this was a tremendous vic-

Washington because it had to overcome a
large percentage of negative votes and,
proportionately, had one of the largest
amounts of federal funds to lose.

Approximately half of the $66 million
Virginia would have lost was in federal im-
pact aid, given to states with high percent-
ages of federal employes and military
personnel.

“This is why we don't understand
Whitehurst’s vote against the bill,” John-
son said, pointing out that Norfolk and
Virginia Beach in his home district would
alone have lost some $6 million.

He and Pulley said the lobbying was a
statewide effort by countless thousands of
teachers, along with school boards, super-
intendents and other education officials.

“The whole educational community
lobbied for this,” Pulley said.

He noted that teachers footed the bill
for large newspaper advertisements that
urged citizens to write the four congress-
men and request them to help override the
! veto.

„

Itory,” said David Johnson, VEA executive
"director.

■ v . „

He said Virginia had the best planned
best coordinated lobbying effort in

iafid

“Apparently it worked, because But-
J ter showed us a stack of letters a foot high
j an d sa te, ‘You folks have really done a
job,’” Pulley said.

' An aide to Daniel said the congress-
man had received more than 600 letters,”
he added.

Pulley said the Virginia lobbyists real-
ly didn’t know how the vote would go until
it was taken “but we felt we were having
some impact on them.

“This just shows the political influ-
ence that can be put together by educa-
tors,” he added.

Johnson said if the President’s veto
had been sustained, it would have meant
the end of hundreds of educational pro-
grams that have been ongoing in Virginia
for many years.

“It was a matter of life or death for so
many programs that have meant so
much,” he said.

If the veto had stood, he explained,
Virginia would have lost nearly half the
$134.8 million it would receive under the
House bill and $55 million less than was
appropriated for the 1974-75 fiscal year.

In many instances, he said, programs
would have been completely wiped out.

In this category was the $4.9 million
currently being spent in Virginia for emer-
gency school aid, $5.6 million for direct
student loans in higher education, and
nearly $3 million for various programs in
occupational, vocational and adult educa-
tion.

If the veto had been sustained, he said,
the $43.2 million in impact act under the
House bill would have been trimmed to
$13.2 million.

Pulley said the lobbyists sought to re-
fute the President’s contention that the
bill would have been inflationary.

‘We showed them that the House bill
was only 3.2 per cent over what was spent
on these programs in 1974-75, which could
hardly be considered inflationary when
you realize that general economic infla-
tion during the period was more than 12
per cent.” he said.

<?t4

fdge_12A_ — TheBgdford BulIetin-Democrat. September 1 1

Engineers Agree to Restudy
Of Navigability of Lake

Virginia Congressmen M.
Caldwell ’Butler, Republican,
of the Sixth District, and W. C.
(Dan) Daniel, Democrat, of
the Fifth District, in a joint
statement telephoned
Tuesday afternoon from
Washington, announced that
the U. s. Army Corps of
Engineers have agreed to
conduct a formal re-study of
the navigability of Smith
Mountain Lake.

The two Congressmen said
this re-study is being launched
in response to public concern
over implementation of a
permits program for con-
struction of private structures
along the lake’s shoreline.

May Discontinue
Should the re-study
determine that Smith
Mountain Lake is not a
navigable body of water, the
permits program will be
discontinued. But until the re-
study is completed the per-
mits program will operate as
at present.

The statement said that if
the navigability of the lake
waters is re-confirmed by the
study the permits program
will continue permanently.

The Corps of Engineers has
not given an estimated
timetable for completion of

the re-study.

The original determination
of the navigability of the lake
was made a decade ago, but
the Corps did not begin
regulation pursuant to that
determination until last year.
The joint statement con-
tinued :

The Legal Basis

‘The study will not examine
the pros and cons of the
program itself. This is simply
a commitment by the Corps of
Engineers to objectively re-
examine the legal basis' on
which they currently operate
the permits program.”

Messrs. Butler and Daniel
have been meeting with the
Corps of Engineers since the
start of the permits program
to express the dissatisfaction
with the program among
residents of the Fifth and
Sixth Virginia Congressional
Districts who have built
homes and other structures
around the lake.

The outcome of the
navigability re-study, the
Congressmen said, will not
affect the requirement that
Department of the Army
permits must be obtained for
the discharge of dredge or fill
material into Smith Mountain
Lake.

nOT

"The study will not examine the pros and cons of the
permit program itself / 7 Butler and Daniel said in a
statement. "This is simply a commitment from the Corps to
re-examine the legal basis on which they operate the
program."

Iflfc DAILY ADVANCE, Lynchburg, Va., Wed., Sept. 10, 1975

v • — e

Corps to restudy
Smith Mt. Lake

WASHINGTON (AP) — The U. S. Army Co rps of
En gineers has announced if will take another look at
w hether Smith Mountain Lake near Roanoke is a navigable
Body of wa ter.

V irgin ia Re ps. M. Ca ldwell Butler of the 6th District
and W. C . (Dan) Daniel oflKe 5th District announce d the
restudy Tuesday and said it was response to public concern
over a permit program for construction of private structures
such as docks along the lake.

Should the restudy find that the lake is not navigable,
the permit program would be discontinued, the con-
gressmen said.

But they warned that if the navigability of the lake is
reconfirmed, the permit program would continue per-
manently.

The Corps declared the manmade lake on the Roanoke
River navigable when it was created 10 years ago but did
not implement its permit program until last year.

"The study will not examine the pros and cons of the
permit program itself/ 7 Butler and Daniel said in a
statement. "This is simply a commitment from the Corps to
re-examine the legal basis on which they operate the
program."

mt DAILY ADVANCE, Lynchburg, Va., Wed., Sept. 10, 1975

To Spend $930,000
To Improve Salem
Veterans Hospital

The Veterans Ad-
ministration has plans ^ to
.sp^d^pimiinatelxi^,obo
for improvements to the
* Salem Veter ans Ad-

ministration

! s*

S’

Hospital. Many 2

Becfiford County Veterans z
have received treatment in *
this hospital and several are r
patients there now. 3

Congres s men M. Ca ldwell 2
Butler repo rted the Veterans
Ad ministra tio n pla ns to un-
dertake extensive renovation
of Building No. 8, which
currently contains large
multi-bed dormitories. It will
be remodeled to private and
semi-private rooms with
better facilities.

“Veterans of our armed
forces deserve the best care
possible,’' Rep. Butler said in
announcing the plans. “The
Salem VA hospital already
has an excellent and dedicated
staff, and the proposed
renovations will mean greater
comfort and privacy to the
patients.”

Mr. Butler said the VA has
told him that a design contract
will be awarded for the project
soon and a construction
contract awarded in June,
1976. Competition is targeted
for July, 1978.

Butler says
VA is given / ‘I
hospital funds

Sixth District Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler has
announced that the
Veterans Administration
has plans to spend
approximately $930,000 for
improvements to the
Salem Veterans
Administration Hospital.

The VA plans to
undertake extensive
renovation of building no.
8, which currently
contains large multi-bed
dormitories. It will be
remodeled to private and
semi-private rooms with
better facilities.

“Veterans of our armed
forces deserve the best
car possible,’’ Butler said
in announcing the plans.
“The Salem VA hospital
already has an excellent
and dedicated staff, and
the proposed renovations
will mean greater comfort
and privacy to the
patients.”

“I am delighted that the
VA is moving ahead with
its plan to improve the
physical facilities,” he
added.

Butler said that the VA
has told him that a design
contract will be awarded
for the project in the near
future, and a construction
contract awarded in June,
1976. The competition date
is targeted for July, 1978.

SIX

3Xo

Amherst New Era-Progress Thun., Sept. 11, 1975

Osinga Heads FB Again

Jan Osinga was re-elected
president of the Amherst Coun-
ty Farm Bureau at the organi-
zation’s annual meeting last
Thursday night at the Refec-
tory at Sweet Briar College.

Nearly 120 persons turned
out for the meeting to hear 6th
District Rep. M. Caldwell But-
ler say that government regula-
tions and high energy costs are
claiming many small farmers as
their victims.

Butler singled out the Occu-
pational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) and
the Environmental Protection
Agency as two of the federal
government culprits that are
hurting the nation’s farmers
and said the agencies need to
take a more “common sense
approach” to agriculture.

Re-elected vice president of
the organization was Edgar
Fitzgerald, while Edwin Fitz-
gerald was elected secretary-
treasurer, replacing H. Samuel
Myers III, who was elected to
the Board of Directors.

Other directors named at the
meeting are S. Vance Wilkins
Jr., W. E. Masencup III and
Edward Lewis.

Osinga, who directs the dairy
farm operation at Sweet Briar
College, cited the growth of
Farm Bureau membership in

Amherst County. “We have
established an all-time member-
ship record of 190 families,” he
said, adding that membership
has grown all across Virginia
with more than 37,000 now
holding membership.

Osinga told the group, which
included a handfull of local
candidates for the General As-
sembly and local offices, that
agriculture still faces problems
such as low profits and high
production costs. He also spoke
on private property rights.

“The secret of American
agriculture efficiency is profit
and the producers’ assurance
that land won’t be taken away
by sudden government decree,”
he said.

Among resolutions adopted
by producing members of the
organization was one asking
that farmers’ land be taxed ac-
cording to use rather than ac-
cording to fair market value.

Another resolution that will
be forwarded to the state con-
vention in Norfolk, scheduled to
be held December 2-4, proposed
an increase in the minimum
federal inheritance tax deduc-
tion from $60,000 to $200,000 or
more from the net worth of the
deceased’s estate.

Edgar Fitzgerald was named
a delegate to the state conven-
tion.

THE NEWS, Lynchburg, Va., Fri., Sept. 12, 1975

Congressmen Praised
For Overriding Veto

By GEORGE W. WILBUR

RICHMOND (AP) - Weary
.officials of the Virginia Educa-
tion Association were ex-
uberant Wednesday over the
congressional override of Pres-
ident Ford’s veto of a $7.9
billion education appropria-
tions bill.

Sustaining the House bill
averts the loss of some $66.2
million in federal education
aid to Virginia during the cur-
rent fiscal year.

“We take our hats off to
those congressmen who took
the stand they did for educa-
tion,” said Richard Pulley,
VEA director of governmental
relations.

He and about a half-dozen
other VEA officials had just
returned from Washington
where they had spent several
days involved in a non-stop,
virtually around-the-clock lob-
bying effort against the veto.

Their primary targets were
three Virginia congressmen
who had voted against the bill
in the House and one of their
colleagues whom it was felt
would have voted against it if
he had been present.

All four, Republican Reps.
Robert Daniel, J. Kenneth Rob-
inson and M. Caldwell Butler
and Democratic Rep. Thomas
Downing, voted to override the
Ford veto.

Siding with the President
were Democratic Reps. David
E. Satterfield and W. C. “Dan”
Daniel and Republican Rep. G.
William Whitehurst.

“We think this was a tre-
mendous victory,” said David
Johnson, VEA executive direc-
tor.

He said Virginia had the
best planned and best coordi-
nated lobbying effort in Wash-
ington because it had to over-
come a large percentage of
negative votes and, propor-
tionately, had one of the larg-
est amounts of federal funds to
lose.

Approximately half of the
$66 million Virginia would
have lost was in federal impact
aid, given to states with high
percentages of federal em-
ployes and military personnel.

“This is why we don’t under-
stand Whitehurst’s vote
against the bill,” Johnson said,
pointing out that Norfolk and
Virginia Beach in his home
district would alone have lost
some $6 million.

He and Pulley said the lob-
bying was a statewide effort by
countless thousands of teach-
ers, along with school boards,
superintendents aqd other
education officials. ? v

“The whole educational
community lobbied for this,”
Pulley said.

He noted that teachers
footed the bill for large news-
paper advertisements that
urged citizens to write the four
congressmen and request them
to help override the veto.

“Apparently it worked,
because Butler showed us a
stack of letters a foot high and
said, ‘You folks have really
done a job,”’ Pulley said.

An aide to Daniel said the
congressman had received
more than 600 letter,” he
added.

Pulley said the Virginia lob-
byists really didn’t know how
the vote would go until it was
taken “but we felt we were
having some impact on them.

“This just shows the politi-
cal influence that can be put
together by educators,” he
added.

Johnson said if the
President’s veto had been sus-
tained, it would have meant
the end of hundreds of educa-
tional programs that have been
ongoing in Virginia for many
years.

“It was a matter of life or
death for so many programs
that have meant so much,” he
said.

If the veto had stood, he
explained, Virginia would have
lost nearly half the $134.8 mil-
lion it would receive under the
House bill and $55 million than
was appropriated for the 197475
fiscal year.

In many instances, he said,
programs would have been
completely wiped out.

In this category was the $4.9
million currently being spent
in Virginia for emergency
school aid, $5.6 million for
direct student loans in higher
education, and nearly $3 mil-
lion for various programs in
occupational, vocational and
adult education.

If the veto had been sus-
tained, he said, the $43.2 mil-
lion in impact act under the
House bill would have been
trimmed to $13.2 million.

Pulley said the lobbyists
sought to refute the
President’s contention that the
bill would have been infla-
tionary.

‘We showed them that the
House bill was only 3.2 per cent
over what was spent on these
programs in 1974-75, which
could hardly be considered in-
flationary when you realize
that general economic infla-
tion during the period was
more than 12 per cent.” he
saldT £

TWO

COVINGTON VIRGINIAN, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12. 1975

Butler To Visit
Highland County

district, Arthur R. “Pete”
Giesen Jr., candidate for the
Virginia House of Delegates
from the 15th District, and Del.
J. Marshall Coleman, candidate
from the 24th Senatorial
district, will also attend.

Sixth Disterict Rep. M.

Caldwell Butler announced
today that he will make a public
appearance at the Highland
County Courthouse in Monterey
September 15 at 8 p.m.

Butler said that he will take
the opportunity to report to his
Highland County constituents
on some of the current activities
of the Congress.

“I invite all of my con-
stituents in this area to join me
at the Courthouse. Of course, I
am anxious to hear any con-
cerns that they might wish to
share with me.”

The meeting will be spon-
;ored by the Republican party.

Sutler said that R. H. “Bob”
lorn, candidate for the Virginia *

louse of Delgates from the 15th |^ler, Tuesday, ISept. 9, 1975 13

Oil

CITY HALL SESSION !

A representative of U.S. Rep.

M. Caldwell Butler will be in
City Hall from 9 a.m.-noon
Thursday to meet with area
residents.

2S2.

5!2S THE DAILY REVIEW. CUfTON FORGE. VA.. TODA Y. SEPTEMBER 12. 1975

» "

Representative
to meet with
residents here

Sixth District

Congressman M. Caldwell
Butler’s representative
will be in the Clifton
Forge City Hall, Tuesday,

Sept. 16 from 2-4 p.m. to
meet with citizens wishing
to discuss problems they
are having with the
federal government. The
meeting in Clifton Forge is
one of the ten monthly
meetings Rep. Butler
holds in the district.

His representative will
return to Clifton Forge on
the third Tuesday of each
month.

These meetings are in
addition to the regular
Open Door Meetings which
Rep. Butler holds himself
from time to time on a
non-scheduled basis.

The Congressman had
earlier announced the
meeting to complement
the three district offices as
part of his plan to have
the Congressman and the
constituent in close contact.

Any persons wishing to
discuss a particular
problem with Rep.

Butler’s representative
should bring with them all
paper and

correspondence dealing
with the case, in addition
to knowing their Veterans
Claim and Social Security
numbers.

4 THE NEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, Va. Saturday, September 13, 1975

How Deep the Conviction?

With great gusto, Sen. Harry

r y M J n'J * xth District Rep.
Caldwell Butler and Seventh

District Rep. Kenneth Robinson

{Xaf°dS heeVilS0,1,8r0 ™«

Do they really mean the words
they speak, or do they mean them
only when the politics are right?
1 here s reason to wonder.

All three gentlemen voted this
week to override President Ford’s
veto of the $7.5 billion education
appropriations measure, thus
endearing themselves to hundreds
of Virginia teachers who had

3 ed , a ™ f ssive campaign on the
bill s behalf.

Mr. Ford, with considerable

evidence to back him up, had
called the bill “too much to ask the
American people . . . and our
economy ... to bear.”
Commenting on the veto
override, Virginia Education
Association President Dr. Beth
Nelson termed it “a victory for our
total society and proof of the
impact teachers and the public can
exert on elected representatives for
the public good.”

She’s right, at least, on the
impact part, and it’s because of this
impact that full blame for the
shape we’re in cannot be placed on
Congress. In the long run, much of
the responsibility comes right back
home.

Butler Defends Vote
On Education Bill 9 ^'

WASHINGTON - Sixth Dis-
trict Rep. M. Caldwell Butler
has released a statement in re-
gard to his vote to override the
veto of President Ford of the
Education Appropriations Bill
for fiscal 1976.

“On the basis of the in-
formation available to me at
this time, I have reluctantly
concluded that it is in the long
term best interest of my consti-
tuents that I vote to override
the veto of the President of the
Educational Appropriation
Bill,” Butler said.

“I am well aware, as my
many votes to date have in-
dicated, of the importance of
holding down excessive federal
spending, and this is the first
time that I have broken with
the President to any great
degree on this matter,” he
added.

Butler also said that “the
$1.5 billion by which the legis-
lation in question exceeds the
President’s budget request is
in my judgment quite substan-

tial and made this a very dif-
ficult question for me.

“I participated in efforts by
the congress to hold this down
when we originally considered
the legislation, but we were
unsuccessful,” he pointed out.

“I am now faced with the
simple question of whether we
will have education assistance
this year in an amount which
will be meaningful to the state
of Virginia or whether it would
be substantially reduced, and I
come down on the side of
going forward with the as-
sistance,” Butler’s stated.

To be more specific, he
added, “if the veto of the Presi-
dent of the United States had
been sustained and the legisla-
tion not enacted into law, it
would have had the effect of
reducing the total amount of
federal education funds avail-
able to the state of Virginia in
the amount of , $66 million,
which would be nearly 50 per
cent below the present budget
level.”

14 THE sJEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, Va. Monday' September 15, 1975

Butler Breakfast

Here Tomorrow

i nictriof * k a i <

Sixth District Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler will be the guest of
honor at a fund raising breakfast
here tomorrow morning.

The gathering, sponsored by
the Republican Party of
Waynesboro, will be held at
Perkins Pancake House, 2120 W
Main St.

^ ois Kindt, chairman of
the city GOP, said, “To meet the

cpwfi °L varyin * work
schedules, the event will start at

6:45 a.m. and allow arrival and

departure through 9 a.m.”

She said that the following

Virginia General Assembly

candidates will also attend' Del

J. Marshall Coleman, seeking

the 24th Senatorial District seat*

and A. R. “Pete” Giesen and

Robert C. Horn, seeking the 15th

Legislative District seats.

Mrs. Kindt said, “An in-
vitation to attend the breakfast
is extended to citizens in not only
the Waynesboro area but also to
Staunton and Augusta

Reservations may be made by
telephoning either Leon P
Harris at 942-5877 or Mrs. Kindt
at 942-2886.

Tomorrow night, Mr. Butler

Rini S r 6 ^ at o the meetin g of the
Blue Ridge Section, American

Society for Qualify Control. The
gathering will be held at the
Waynesboro Country Club The
social hour will be at 6, dinner
mil be served at 7:15 and Mr.
Butler will speak at 8:05.

Staunton, Va., Leader,

WAYNESBORO - Sixth District U.S.
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler today criticized
Congress for failing to pass “major
legislation on energy” but added that the
nation may be “at long last developing a
national energy policy”.

Here for a round of politicking during a
two-day congressional hiatus, Rep. Butler
spoke to a group of newsmen following an
early morning GOP breakfast at Perkins
Pancake House at which he endorsed
Republican candidates J. Marshall
Coleman, A.R. Giesen Jr. and Robert H.
Horn.

The Representative, who spoke to a
group of 60 party supporters in Highland
County Monday night, said today that
cooperation between Congress and
President Ford has “not been for-
thcoming” and said the President’s veto of
the act which would preserve controls on
old domestic oil was “definitely a con-

Tuesday, Sept. 16, ij?5

ress ^

frontation between the President and
Congress”.

Since then the House of Representatives
has, with Ford’s apparent approval,
passed a 45-day extension of the act, a
sign, Mr. Butler said, that Congress and
the President may be reconciling.

But, Mr. Butler said, Congressional
failure to do something about the natural
gas shortage is “going to have a major
effect this fall” and “may lead to unem-
ployment”.

Mr. Butler said, however, he is “op-
timistic about economic health of the 6th
District.

“There may be setbacks from time to
time,” he said, “but overall I’m quite
optimistic about the economy of this
area.”

He added that the “best way” to resolve
it (the economic crisis) is to control ex-
cessive federal spending.

Rep. Butler indicated he supports grain
sales to the Soviets, but thinks it’s
necessary to work out a long-term sales
agreement.

“It is important to develop our export
sales but we can’t do this until we have a
definite commitment from the Russians,”
the Congressman said.

Of President Ford’s performance in
general, Rep. Butler said “public con-
fidence in the man has increased” in
recent months and added that con-
servatives would have no qualms about
voting for him in next year’s election.

Ronald Reagan “would have my vote if
he ran for president”, Mr. Butler said
“But I think Mr. Ford will be the
Republican choice. Public confidence in
Mr . Ford’s integrity is greater in my view
than in any president since Eisenhower.”

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RocKeteuer nasroeen^
quife energetic and has worked
hard at the job,” Rep. Butler
said. “He has begun to
establish a degree of com-
patibility with the President.”

On another subject, Rep.
Butler said that although he is
“not satisfied with many of the
questions” surrounding the
John F. Kennedy
assassination, he would not
recommend reopening the
investigation.

The Congressman would not
say, however, who his vice
presidential choice would be,
commenting only that “the
Republican ticket is fairly well
jelled.

mere is aeiinueiy a lemp-
tation to sensationalize the
case,” he said. “I suspect that
this is part of the motivation
for reopening the investigation.
I would think it appropriate to
spend our time and money on
other things.”

Mr. Butler is scheduled to
address a meeting of the Blue
Ridge Section of the American
Society for Quality Control
tonight at' the Waynesboro

COVINGTON VIRGINIAN. TUESDAY SEPTEMBER IS

Navigability Study

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Planned For Lake

Virginia Representatives M.
Caldwell Butler (R-6th) and Dan
Daniel (D-5th) have announced
that the U. S. Army Corps of
Engineers has agreed to con-
duct a formal navigability re-
study of Smith Mountain Lake.

In a joint statement, the
Congressmen said that the
study has been launched in
response to public concern over
implementation of a permit
program for construction of
private structures along the
lake’s borders. Should the re-
study determine that the lake is
not a navigable body of water,
the permit program will be
discontinued.

Until the re-study is com-
pleted, the program will
operate as normal. If the
navigability of the waters is
reconfirmed by the study, the
program will continue per-
manently.

The Corps has not given an
estimated timetable for com-
pletion of the re-study.

The original determination of
navigability was made a decade
ago, but the Corps did not begin
regulation pursuant to that
designation until last year.

“The study will not examine
the pro’s and con’s of the
program itself,” their
statement cautioned. “This is
simply a commitment from the •
Corps of Engineers to ob- :

jectively reexamine the legal
basis on which they currently
operate the permit program.”

Butler and Daniel have been
meeting with the Corps of
Engineers since its an-
nouncement of the permit
program to express
dissatisfaction with the
program among residents of the
Fifth and Sixth Districts who
have homes on the Lake’s
borders.

The outcome of the
navigability study will not ef-
fect the requirements that
Department of Army permits
must be obtained for the
discharge of dredge or fill
material into Smith Mountain
Lake.

FIVE

CAMPAIGN LITERATURE is discussed by
Mrs. Lois Kindt, chairman of the Waynesboro
Democratic Party, and Sixth District Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler. Mr. Butler was here this
morning for a fund raising breakfast for the

campaigns of area GOP candidates for the
General Assembly: J. Marshall Coleman,
24th Senatorial District; and A. R. Giesen and
Robert Horn, 15th Legislative District.

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dealing with the energy crisis; thinks that
President Ford will be the GOP candidate for
president and that Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller will be his running mate; overall
is “quite optimistic” about the economic
future ofjdiis area; and thinks that the ap-

libraries, aid to the handicapped ana
vocational education would have been among
the programs which would have felt the cut.

Turning to the energy crisis, Congressman
Butler said that “the failure of Congrei
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The Congressman had kind words for Mr
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Rockefeller is President Ford’s choice for his
running mate, Mr. Butler said he has seen no
presidential involvement in reported at-
tempts to “dump” Mr. Rockefeller.

Mr. Coleman, who is seeking the 24th
fenatonal District seat; and A. R. Giesen and
Robert Horn, who are running for the 15th

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By PAT VELENOVSKY
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“I may have been wrong,” Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler said this morning, “but I had to
make a decision and I made it.”

The Sixth District Congressman, referring
to his vote last week to override President
Ford’s veto of a $7.5 billion education ap-
propriation, said he felt that dropping
programs funded by the appropriation would
have been worse than any inflation it might
bring about.

Mr. Butler was here for a Republican fund-
raising breakfast sponsored by the
Waynesboro Republican Party and to help in
the campaigns of area GOP candidates for
the Virginia General Assembly. His remarks
were made at a news conference which
followed the breakfast.

He was also “highly critical” of Congress
for not enacting “any major legislation”
dealing with the energy crisis; thinks that
President Ford will be the GOP candidate for
president and that Vice President Nelson
Rockefeller will be his running mate; overall
is “quite optimistic” about the economic
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me.”

The Congressman had kind words for Mr.
Rockefeller. Pointing out that Mr
Rockefeller is President Ford’s choice for his
running mate, Mr. Butler said he has seen no
presidential involvement in reported at-
tempts to “dump” Mr. Rockefeller.

proach to the Russian grain sales has been
sound, “although I haven’t been consulted
about it anywhere along the line.”

Mr. Butler, who has been criticized in some
quarters for seemingly abandoning his fight
against “excessive” federal spending to vote
against the veto, said he still shares Mr.
Ford’s “basic philosophy” that “our basic
problem is excessive federal spending” and
that “this is not the way to get out of a
recession.”

He added, however, that in this particular
case he felt committed and that “we should go
ahead” with the education programs funded
by the appropriation.

Rep. Butler said he had discussed the
matter in detail with representatives of the
state Department of Education. His
discussions showed, he said, that sustaining
the veto would have cut Virginia’s federal
funds by about 50 per cent. He said that
libraries, aid to the handicapped and
vocational education would have been among
the programs which would have felt the cut.

Turning to the energy crisis, Congressman
Butler said that “the failure of Congress” to
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Mr. Coleman, who is seeking the 24th
Senatorial District seat; and A. R. Giesen and
Robert Horn, who are running for the 15th
Legislative District seats in the General
Assembly.

Tonight, Mr. Butler will speak at the
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deregulate natural gas will bring a shortage
of gas this faU which could reduce the supply
of fertilizer, hurt industry “and may cause
unemployment.”

He sees the possibility of a “gradual
decontrol of gasoline ” spread over a period of
about three years. He feels that the President
has strong feelings on what is appropriate.”
but Congress has not measured up to its
responsibilities.”

Asked about the potential candidacy of
former California Gov. Ronald Reagan, Mr
Butler reiterated his feeling that Mr. Ford
vrul be the GOP candidate for president. He
added that if Mr. Ford was not the candidate
that Mr. Reagan “would be satisfactory to
me.

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“I hope Mr. Rockefeller can be persuaded
to come to this area,” Mr. Butler said, “so
that the people of the area can see for
themselves if some of the criticism he has
received is valid or not.”

GOP spokemen estimated that in excess of
50 area residents attended the breakfast this
morning. “It is difficult to have an exact
count right now,” said J. Marshall Coleman
because people have been coming and going
all morning.” The breakfast was held from

schedules. " ^ ^ V3rying WOrk

Candidates attending the breakfast were
Mr. Coleman, who is seeking the 24th
fenatoria 1 District seat; and A. R. Giesen and
KoDert Horn who are running for the 15th

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Tonight, Mr. Butler will speak at the
meeting of the Blue Ridge Chapter, American
Society for Quality Control, at the
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Mr. Butler said, can be found in the Oc-
cupational Safety and Health Administration
(OSHA). Within one month after beginning
operations, he related, OSHA issued 250 pages
of regulations concerning every aspect of
working conditions “from how often spitoons
must be cleaned to the definition of an exit.”
While the objective of reducing job-related
accidents is a good one, he said, “many of the
regulations are unnecessarily technical and
inflexible and, in many cases, they are simply
incomprehensible to the average
businessman.”

In all, the Republican legislator pointed out,
the federal government has more than 63,000
regulatory personnel and the rules they en-
force are costing manufacturers about $130
billion annually. Much of this cost, he said, is
passed on to die consumer.

Another congressional problem, Mr. Butler
told the organization’s Management Night
banquet at Waynesboro Country Club, is
inadequate control over appropriated funds.

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BlrfLER

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Congress, he said, “simply cannot designate
and account for the dispensation of every
penny of $350 billion.”

At present, he said, the only available
actions against the misdirection of funds are
remedial. But, he declared, “We have clearly
come to the point where we need preventive
measures as well.” Mr. Butler expressed the
view that Congress now seems determined to
adopt such measures.

“Government over-regulation, wasteful

spending and an unresponsive bureaucracy!
are symptomatic of a government which
expanded faster than our ability to monitor its
activities. An alert citizenry and a fortified
Congress are our best protection for con-
trolling this government,” he asserted.

Mr. Butler was introduced by Robert
Blanton, chairman of the Blue Ridge Section.
Among other guests were State Sen. Frank W.
Nolen, Mrs. J. Marshall Coleman, wife of the
senatorial candidate, and A. R. Giesen Jr.,
candidate for the House of Delegates.

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Costs Consumer: Butler

Run-away bureaucratic regulations not
only contribute to higher consumer prices,
but feed the fires of inflation, Rep. M. Cald-
well Butler said here last night.

A part of the problem, he told members of
the Blue Ridge Section of the American
Society for Quality Control, is that “once
these regulations become written, they
become carved in stone and it is extremely
difficult to modify them, whatever the public
sentiment.”

To help put the brakes on excessive rules,
the Sixth District Congressman called for
“steps to insure that the immense power
which we have delegated to these government
agencies is not used unwisely and beyond the
original intent of the law.” In that direction,
he said, he has co-sponsored a bill which
would give Congress the opportunity to
review proposed regulations “and decide for
itself if they over-extend or modify our
original intent.”

One example of how executive agencies
tend to “stretch their legislative mandates,”

Another congressional problem, Mr. Butler
told the organization’s Management Night
banquet at Waynesboro Country Club, is
inadequate control over appropriated funds.

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BoTEER

(Continued from Page 1)

Congress, he said, “simply cannot designate
and account for the dispensation of every
penny of $350 billion.”

“Government over-regulation, wasteful

spending and an unresponsive bureaucracyi
are symptomatic of a government which
expanded faster than our ability to monitor its
activities. An alert citizenry and a fortified
Congress are our best protection for con-
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WAYNESBORO — Sixth District U.S.
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler discussed the
“inability of the Congress to control the
quality of our product” during a talk to
area industrial employees here Tuesday
night.

Mr. Butler was the “Management
Night” speaker at a meeting of the Blue
Ridge Section of the American Society for
Quality Control, held at the Waynesboro
Country Club.

Other political figures at the dinner
meeting included Mrs. J. Marshall
Coleman, representing her husband who
seeks the 24th Senatorial District seat in
the Virginia General Assembly; State Sen.

Frank W. Nolen; and A. R. Giesen, who is
running for one of two 15th Legislative
District seats.

In a short business session, presided
over by Robert Blanton of the American
Safety Razor Co., the group was reminded
that the meeting on Oct. 11 will consist of a
chartered bus trip to the $200 million Philip
Morris factory in Richmond.

Rep. Butler said that, while the Congress
has targeted itself to spend $367 billion this
year, with a $60 billion deficit, he an-
ticipates the deficit will reach $80 billion.

“Once again, we will corner a large
share of our nation’s investable capital
without producing any tangible product in

making decisions which are
clearly the responsibility of the
Congress, stretching their
legislative mandates far
beyond the original intent of
the Congress.”

As an illustration, Rep.
Butler said that in 1970,
Congress established the
Occupational Safety and
Health Administration to help
reduce the number of em-
ployees injured in job-related
accidents.

“One month after it began
operations, OSHA issued 250
pages of regulations con-
cerning every aspect of
working conditions from how
often spittoons must be cleaned
to the definition of an exit.

“Since it began operations in
1971, total inspections have
increased almost four fold; the
number of violations
discovered during these in-
spections has increased almost
six fold.

“The cost of complying with
the regulations have become
extraordinary.

The McGraw Hill Depart-
ment of Economics estimates
that it will cost industry an
aggregate of $13.5 billion to
bring existing facilities into
compliance with current OSHA
noise standards alone.

“The point is that Congress
passed a law with a limited
goal, increasing job safety, and
OSHA has taken that goal and
expanded it to almost

proposed regulations ana
decide for itself if they
overextend or modify our
original intent.

“In my view, this would be a
major step toward reasserting
our authority for making our
nation’s basic policy making
decisions.

“Congress is also burdened
by inadequate control over the
expenditure of funds which we
appropriate.

“Congress appropriates
money by functions, for
example, scientific research is
a line item under the budget for
the National Science Foun-
dation budget.

“But specific expenditures of
money must be up to the
Executive branch; hence the
National Science Foundation
itself determines what
research projects will be
funded.

“One of my colleagues stated
my view quite nicely during
debate on an amendment. He
said that somewhere,

return, and once again we will be con-
tributing to the pressures which drive the
inflation rate skywards,” Rep. Butler said.

He continued: “If this Congress is like
past Congresses, we can expect to pass

(See BUTLER, Page 2)

Branch, to step up our over-
sight hearings and call the
bureaucracy to account when
their activities overextend
Congressional intent.

“You the citizen have a
responsibility to alert us when
examples of wasteful spending
and government misaction
come to your attention.

“There is no force in this
nation as strong as that of
public opinion.”

During a question and an-
swer period, Rep. Butler
stated: “It is true that there
are too many lawyers in
Congress, but there are not too
many statesmen.”

While not denying that there
should be more engineers and
technical experts involved in
federal legislation, Mr. Butler
said that lawyers are trained to
analyze information and that
lawyers who want to run for
office are able to adjust their
schedules for campaigning.

He said that congressmen
who have expertise in a given
field often are appointed to
committees in which they can
use their knowledge to best
advantage.

Summarizing his earlier
remarks, Rep. Butler said,
“Excessive federal debt, ex-
cessive federal spending is, in
my judgement, the major
cause of inflation.” He added:
“I think the American people
are going to return to the basic
principle of holding dowr
federal spending.”

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“Once Congress passes a
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becomes the responsibility of
the executive branch of our
government.

“The nature of many of the
laws we pass, however,
requires that Congress simply
establish broad outlines of our
intent, leaving the executive
greater and greater flexibility
in implementation.

“I am increasingly con-
cerned that certain executive
agencies, particularly those
concerned with regulation, are
using this flexibility to en-
croach upon the basic policy
making decisions which are
clearly the responsibility of the
Congress, stretching their
legislative mandates far
beyond the original intent of
the Congress.”

As an illustration, Rep.
Butler said that in 1970,
Congress established the
Occupational Safety and
Health Administration to help
reduce the number of em-
ployees injured in job-related
accidents.

“One month after it began
operations, OSHA issued 250
pages of regulations con-
cerning every aspect of
working conditions from how
often spittoons must be cleaned
to the definition of an exit.

“Since it began operations in
1971, total inspections have
increased almost four fold; the
number of violations
discovered during these in-
spections has increased almost
six fold.

“The cost of complying with
the regulations have become
extraordinary.

The McGraw Hill Depart-
ment of Economics estimates
that it will cost industry an
aggregate of $13.5 billion to
bring existing facilities into
compliance with current OSHA
noise standards alone.

“The point is that Congress
passed a law with a limited
goal, increasing job safety, and
OSHA has taken that goal and
expanded it to almost

unlimited regulation over
every aspect of working
conditions.”

The Congressman said that
there are more than 63,000
federal regulators today, all
with a “consuming passion” to
regulate, regardless of the
implications of their actions.

One recent study estimated
that government regulations
cost manufacturers $130 billion
a year.

“Manufacturers absorb
some of these costs,” he
continued. “However, we can
be assured that at least part of
the cost is passed along to the
consumer, resulting in higher
prices and greater inflation.

“Part of the problem in my
opinion is that once regulations
become written, they become
carved in stone; it is extremely
difficult to modify them,
whatever the public sentiment.

“In my view, it is essential
that Congress take steps to
ensure that the immense power
which we have delegated to
these government agencies is
not used unwisely and beyond
the original intent of the law.

“I have co-sponsored a bill
which will give Congress the
opportunity to disapprove the
proposed regulations and
decide for itself if they
overextend or modify our
original intent.

“In my view, this would be a
major step toward reasserting
our authority for making our
nation’s basic policy making
decisions.

“Congress is also burdened
by inadequate control over the
expenditure of funds which we
appropriate.

‘ ‘ Congress appropriates
money by functions, for
example, scientific research is
a line item under the budget for
the National Science Foun-
dation budget.

“But specific expenditures of
money must be up to the
Executive branch; hence the
National Science Foundation
itself determines what
research projects will be
funded.

“One of my colleagues stated
my view quite nicely during
debate on an amendment. He
said that somewhere,

sometime, we are going to
have to stop and make a stand
one way or the other as to
whether the bureaucracy runs
us or we represent the people
and are accountable to them.

“Government over-regul-
ation, wasteful spending, an
unresponsive bureaucracy are
symptomatic of a government
which has expanded faster
than our ability to monitor its
activities.

“An alert citizenry and a
fortified congress are our best
protection for controlling this
government.

“We in Congress have a
responsibility to strengthen the
tools by which we oversee the
activities of the Executive
Branch, to step up our over-
sight hearings and call the
bureaucracy to account when
their activities overextend
Congressional intent.

“You the citizen have a
responsibility to alert us when
examples of wasteful spending
and government misaction
come to your attention.

“There is no force in this
nation as strong as that of
public opinion.”

During a question and an-
swer period, Rep. Butler
stated: “It is true that there
are too many lawyers in
Congress, but there are not too
many statesmen.”

He said that congressmen
who have expertise in a given
field often are appointed to
committees in which they can
use their knowledge to best
advantage.

CONGRESSMAN M. CALDWELL BUT-
LER, center, meeting in Monterey Mon-
day night to address Bath and Highland
farmers, endorsed Del. J. Marshall Cole-
man, to Butler’s right, as Republican
candidate for the State Senate, and Re-
publican hopefuls Bob Horn, to Butler’s
left, and A. R. “Pete” Giesen, second

from right, as candidates for seats in
the House of Delegates. On the far left
are S. J. Conn and Marvin “Dick” Eagle,
the Highland Republican chairman, Stew-
art A. Sherwood, far right, is chairman
of the Bath segment of the Republican
Party. The meeting was held in the
Highland Courthouse.

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Virginia Representatives
Mo Caldwell Butler (R-6th)
and Dan Daniel (D-5th) an-
nounced last week that the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers has
agreed to conduct a formal
navigability re -study of Smith
Mountain Lake.

In a joint statement, the
Congressmen said that the
study has been launched in
response to public concern
over implementation of a per-
mit program for construction
of private structures along
the lake’s borders. Should the
re -study determine that the
lake is not a navigable body of
water, the permit program
will be discontinued.

Until the re -study is com-
pleted, the program will op-
erate as normal. If the
navigability of the waters is
reconfirmed by the study, the
program will continue perma-
nently.

The Corps has not given an
estimated timetable for com-
pletion of the re -study.

The original determination
of navigability was made a
decade ago, but the Corps
did not begin regulation
pursuant to that designation
until last year.

“The study will not ex-
amine the pro’s and con’s
of the program itself,” their
statement cautioned. “This
is simply a commitment from
the Corps of Engineers to
objectively reexamine the
legal basis on which they cur-
rently operate the permit
program.”

Butler and Daniel have been
meeting with the Corps of
Engineers since its announce-
ment of the perm it program to
express dissatisfaction with
the program among residents
of the Fifth and Sixth Districts
who have homes on the Lake’s
borders.

The outcome of the navig-
ability study will not effect
the requirements that De-
partment of Army permits
must be obtained for the dis-
charge of dredge or fill
material into Smith Mountain
Lake.

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concern over impTemeSS 5 re8P ° nSe t0 public
for construction of S SSLcSre^f” 1 ' ? r ? gram
borders. Should the re-studJd^.^- loi l g thelak e s
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Butler urges state
to be progressive

DANVILLE (AP)— Virginia's
conservatism has fed to abdica-
tion to the federal government
?}. m 2 n y responsibilities

sumlrf S ? ^!J Id have been as!
n l a l, the state level,” says
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, R-Va

*f ld an audience at Aver-
f t C0 ,ege here Thursday night
that if conservatism is to be

ESW* “ must recognize

S fmlong tUS qu ° Cannot pre-

The 6th District Republican

examinfih 8 ' 316 ° fficials to re ‘
examine their priorities, “to

determine if the cause of con-

--V ruIy bein « served

ny failure to move forward in
such sensitive areas as trans
P^rfation, public health, pollu-
tion, no-fault insurance

Sda a rL m 1 ,P ^ CtiCe ’ med 'eal
standards, land use planning

environmental controls and

daycare.”

The “inevitable conse-
quence of a tendency to ridi-
cule new ideas and “trade on
the fears of the electorate.”
Butler said, is to “inhibit de-
velopment of new ideas and
leadership.”

As an example of how con-

Vir f inia ’ s Poetics
are, Butler said he was consid-
ered a moderate to liberal
when he was in the Virginia
General Assembly, but now he
is known as one of the most
conservative members of Con-
gress.

We must search ourselves
for values which will allow us
to adapt to the rapidly chang-
ing challenges of the 20th Cen-
tury without jeopardizing the
great traditions of individual
liberties and freedoms which
are our heritage,” he said.

AMVILLE REGISTER

Classified

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DANVILLE, VA., FRIDAY MORNING, SEPTEMBER 19, 1975

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Rep. Butler Predicts
C onserva tive-Liber al
Issues During 1976

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Predicting that the issues in
the 1976 elections will be more
clearly conservative versus
liberal than in previous
campaigns, Sixth District U.S.
Rep. M. Cladwell Butler
praised the relevancy of last
night’s public forum on
Virginia conservatism at
Averett College.

Despite a tight time schedule
and overdue flight from
Washington, D.C. to Danville,
Butler’s remarks to a small but
responsive audience were
clear, organized and reflective
of his republican, conservative
orientation.

A native Virginian and
previous member of the
General Assembly, Butler
serves on the House Judiciary
Committee which conducted
the impeachment inquiry that
preceded the resignation of
President Richard M. Nixon.

He is well -versed in the
nuances of Virginia con-
servatism and its impact on
public policy.

“The vast majority of people
in Virginia are satisfied with
their state,” he said. “Whether
as state or as individuals, we
want to preserve our present
status— to keep it like it is as
long as we can. This is the
prevailing Virginia
philosophy.”

He recalled the correspon-
dence received from
Virginians during the 1974
presidential impeachment
proceedings and cited the
experience as a unique op-
portunity for insight into the
people of Virginia.

“Many themes ran though
the correspondence,” he said,
“but two were dominant:

Our constitutional system of
government must not be
compromised amd the people
of Virginia demand the very
highest standards of personal
integrity from every public
official.”

Butler, labeling Virginia
conservatism a conservatism
all its own. I suspect that
Virginians are more con-
servative than in any other
state in the U.S.,” he said.

Bla^e Boused

At Track Stop

After battling a fire at the
Lakewood Truck Center on Rt.
58 East of Danville for nearly
two hours, the Ringgold
Volunteer Fire Department
managed to contain the blaze
and prevent it from reaching a
275-gallon drum of diesel fuel
stored in the building
yesterday morning.

The volunteer firemen left
the scene about 1 a.m.
yesterday after the fire had
damaged the truck stop’s
kitchen, attic and roof.

No one was injured in the
fire.

Mike Neal, a spokeman for
the fire fighters, said the Mt.
Hermn Volunteer Fire
Department was called to
assist because of the danger of
the diesel fuel exploding.

Two trucks and 20 men from
Ringgold assisted in the fire
fighting.

Neal said the fire began in
the kitchen when a pan of
grease left on the stove ignited.

He cited a recent rating by
the American Conservative
Union that judged ten mem-
bers of the House of
Representatives 100 per cent
conservative. “Of these ten,
five were from Virginia, in-
cluding myself,” he said.

Noting that an inherently
conservative population has
produced a conservative
government, Butler warned
that a natural result of this
approach is to abdicate to the
federal government respon-
sibilities that are more ap-
propriately handled at the
state level.

“It is almost too late to
change that trend,” Butler
said. “There are few bat-
tlefields left.”

But he encouraged the state
to re-examine its priorities to
determine if failure to advance
in the areas of transportation,
public health, pollution,
medical malpractice, en-
vironmental controls and land

See BUTLER, Pape 2-B

Tran Thana Van Family

NEW FAMILY IN TOWN. Danville’s second
Vietnamese family, the Vans, arrived in the
city this week, with the help of members of Mt.
Vernon United Methodist Church. Left to right,
family members in their new residence on

Floral Avenue are: five-year-old Anh, Mrs.
Van, three-year-old Kim, Van, eight-year-old
Oanh and Mrs. Van’s sister Hoang Xuan
Phuang.

Church Brings Vietnam Refugees
To Danville , Provides Housing

In the living room of a house
on Floral Avenue, a bouquet of
bright orange marigolds rests
on a drop-leaf table. Smiles of
the new residents of the home
match the radiance of those
flowers and add light to all
their surroundings.

The family of Tran Thana
Van— the second Vietnamese
family to arrive in Danville
this month— has settled
securely at 125 Floral with tne
help of scores of members of
Mt. Vernon United Methodist
Church.

“We are grateful to the
United States government, the
people of America and,
especially, the people of
Danville who have helped us,”
says Van, a 42-year-old refugee
who moved from Fort Chaffee,
Ark., to Danville this week with
his family.

Family consists of wife
Hoang Hoa Kim, and three
children, eight-year-old Tran
Oanh Hoang, five-year-old
Tran Anh Hoang and three-
year-old Tran Kim Phuang.
Mrs. Van’s sister, Hoang Xuan
Phuang, came with the family
from Fort Chaffee.

Their arrival culminated a
four-month search for a family
of refugees by Mt. Vernon
church members and justified
a week-long struggle to
prepare a suitable dwelling
place for the six Vans.

One church member pur-
chased the residence and is
renting it to the church until
Van finds employment. Other
members cleaned and painted
the interior. Last Sunday
scores of members completely
furnished the house with ob-
jects from their own homes.

“We have raked and
scrubbed and cleaned and put
new window glass in,” says
Miss Rebecca Yow, director of
ministries for the church. “The

work and contributions of the
membership have been
overwhelming.”

“We were counting con-
tributors up to 100, but then
there were so many we had to
stop,” notes Mrs. Reuben C.
Harvey, chairman of the
church’s task force coor-
dinating the Van’s movement.
“We even have a TV for them.
We thought TV would be great
for everyone to learn words.”

Only Van and his sister-in-
law speak English, and their
vocabulary is limited. The
children will begin attending
Forest Hills Elementary
School next week to learn the
native tongue.

Although Van’s English
speech is basic and somewhat
halting, he is able to explain
the essential facts of his
family’s existence during the
past few months.

A pharmaceutical laboratory
manager in Saigon for 10
years. Van was forced to give
up everything last April 29 to
flee with his family for
America.

“It is very hard to leave. The
time was very short,” he notes.
“A friend of mine in the army

told us a boat was leaving. We
had five minutes. There was
not time to return to the house.
I drove the car to the dock and
left it there.”

The family also left Mrs.
Van’s parents in Saigon. There

was not time to find them. Van
left his photo album in Viet-
nam. He never again will see
the pictures of his parents, who
died several years ago.

See REFUGEES, Page 2-B

Courts Building
Dedication Today

The grand opening of the
Danville Courts and Jail
Building will begin at 10
a.m. today, with Virginia
Attorney General Andrew
P. Miller leading a host of
state and city dignitaries
who will officiate at the
ceremony.

Following the dedication
of the building, city em-
ployes will provide guided
tours through the new
facility until 9 p.m.

Local Market Leads
In V olume, Money

The Danville Tobacco Market yesterday led the Old Belt in
volume and total money and came within 21 cents of leading in
average price.

The market’s $103.38 average price was its third best of the
season and second best of the week.

Only South Hill produced a higher average price— $103.56 on
290,704 pounds of tobacco.

Clarksville and Petersburg slipped from their higher averages
of a few days ago to just over $100.

In North Carolina, two of three markets reporting had
averages below $100.

Greensboro, Stoneville and Yadkinville failed to report their
sales.

For the week, Danville sold 3,237,595 pounds for $3,336,708.57,
an average of $103.38.

Season figures show Danville has sold 17,441,787 pounds for
$16,397,236.47, an average of $94.01.

Charles K. Waddell, supervisor of sales for the local market,
said prices on grades remained steady with $115 still the prac-
tical top yesterday.

“More and more smoking leaf and leaf tobacco is on the
warehouse floor,” he explained. Higher averages, he added, have
been the result of better quality tobacco.

He predicted another increase in quality next week, which
should bring higher prices.

The Federal-State Market News Service last night reported the
following sales :

—Clarksville: 347,056 pounds, $348,030, ave. $100.28.

—DANVILLE: 723,291 pounds, $747,512.96, ave. $103.35.

—Petersburg: 368,348 pounds, $369,113, ave. $100.21.

—South Boston: 367,094 pounds, $375,895, ave. $102.40.

—South Hill: 290,704 pounds, $301,055, ave. $103.56.

—Greensboro: no report.

— Reidsville: 415,506 pounsd, $409,066, ave. $98.45.

— Roxboro: 368,158 pounds, $374,420, ave. $101.70.

—Stoneville: no report.

—Winston-Salem: 715,474 pounds, $702,069, ave. $98.13.

—Yadkinville: no report.

500 Persons Owe Fines

Library Has Your Number

If you’re one of the 500 or so
people who owes the Danville
Public Library more than $1,
has received three notices on
an overdue book or has lost a
book, there’s one thing to
remember:

The library has your nurm
ber.

Generally the only thing that
happens is that a person’s
library card number is placed
on a list posted at the down-
stairs check-out desk.

Whenever a person comes in
to check out a book, the library
worker on duty checks the list
to see if the card has been
suspended.

“We catch some people that
way,” remarked Assistant
Librarian Reecie Taylor
yesterday.

There have been instances,
however, when all books on a
subject have been checked out
and kept out. Librarian David
Flick has had to find the culprit
and rescue the books.

Fortunately, Miss Taylor
explained, that situation
seldom arises.

With 14,000 patrons, tne
library feels fortunate that
only 500-plus are delinquent in
their dealings.

“Our percentage is much
lower than some of the larger
libraries,” she said.

In Danville the library has
adopted several policies which
are intended to give patrons
incentives to return books.

There now is a $7 ceiling on
the fine for a single book. Miss
Taylor said. A person who has
had a book at home for years
and re-finds it can return it and
pay the maximum fine despite
the accumulated time which—
at two cents a day— could be
quite expensive.

“Some people complain
about a $2 or $3 fine on a
magazine,” Miss Taylor ad-
ded. “But you can’t replace a
magazine. Besides the fine is
imposed to deter people
keeping books out late not to
pay for the books and
magazines lost.”

Fines, she explained, do not
go for new books. They are
placed in the city’s general
fund.

Even when a person loses a
book, the money paid doesn’t
stay in the library, she said. So
when a book is stolen several
times, library officials may not
wish to keep buying copies.

The matter of owing money
is not entirely one-way,
however.

“The library used to require
a users’ deposit,” Miss Taylor
reported. “Somewhere along
the line that was dropped and

the deposits returned. But
there still are people who
haven’t picked up their
deposits.

“If a person comes by and
his name is on the list, he still
can get his money back.”

Recently there have been
several unusual circumstances
involving fines, Miss Tavlor

noted.

“One little fellow had a |3
fine,” she said. “He’d come in
and pay a nickel or a dime.
Finally he got it down to 98
cents and we let him check out
books again.

“He really worked at it.”

Another person lost most of
his possessions— and a number

Miller Says Overcrowding
In Jails Can’t Continue

BRISTOL ( AP )— Unless mon-
ey is appropriated pretty soon
to build new corrections facil-
ities in Virginia, the state may
be forced to stop admitting
prisoners, Atty. Gen. Andrew
P. Miller said Thursday.

Miller spoke to more than 100
law enforcement officials at-
tending the Virginia State
Crime Clinic here.

He said the state corrections
system has reached a crisis
point because of the over-
crowded conditions in all state
jails.

“Continued overcrowding in
the state’s jail simply can’t be
tolerated,” he said, adding the
General Assembly is going to
have to find funds to contruct
new facilties.

If it doesn’t, the state may be

faced with a litigation saying it
can’t admit anyone else to pris-
on, Miller said. He said similar
court actions already are un-
derway agaisnt two other
states.

The attorney general said lo-
cal jails are backlogged with
nearly 2,000 prisoners “placing
an intolerable burden on sher-
iffs and forcing the escape rate
up.”

Arts, Crafts Show

An Arts and Crafts Show
featuring work in leather,
wood, metal, glass and pain-
tings by the inmates of Camp
15 in Chatham will be held
tomorrow from 10 a.m. to 6
p.m. in Danville’s Ballou Park
Shopping Center.

of library books — in a fire.
Flick and the fire victim set up

a payment schedule so he could
continue to use the library.

Such honesty is not too
unusual, she explained.

“Sometimes a person will
come in and tell us he brought a
book back a day late and put it
in the book drop. We don’t keep
track of every two-cent fine,
but he’ll insist on paying it.

“Senior citizens don’t have to
pay late fines. We still want
them to pay the postage on the
overdue notices, and we want
the books back,” she said.

Quite often, Miss Taylor
said, elderly people “who
admit to being senior citizens,
will insist on paying the fines
anyway.”

the list of numbers at the
main check-out desk serves
another purpose, Miss Taylor
noted. “If a person tells us his
card is stolen, we put the
number on the list,” she said.
“So if someone steals a card, it
won’t do much good, since he
can’t use it.”

The number gets on the list if
a person moves and leaves no
forwarding address. “A lot of
people don’t realize they have
to notify us of address
changes,” she said. “But it’s
there in the agreement they
sign when they get the card.”

’ ’ Ism ■

4rui^

COVINGTON VIRGINIAN, FRI DAY, SEPTEMBER 19, “

Butler Speaks In Danvilc

DANVILLE (AP) — Virginia’s
conservatism has led to abdica-
tion to the federal government
of “many responsibilities
that... should have been as-
sumed at the state level,” says
Rep. M. Caldwell Butler, R-Va.

He told an audience at Aver
ett College here Thursday night
that if conservatism is to be
meaningful, it must recognize
that the status quo cannot pre-
vail for long.

The 6th District Republican
encouraged state officials to re-
examine their priorities, “to de-
termine if the cause of con-
servatism is Jtruly being served
by failure to move forward in
such sensitive areas as trans-
portation, public health, pollu-
tion, no-fault insurance, medi-
cal malpractice, medical stand-
ards, land use planning, envi-
ronmental controls and day
care.”

As an example of how con-
servative Virginia’s politics
are, Butler said he was consid-
ered a moderate to liberal
when he was in the Virginia
General Assembly, but now he
is known as one of the most
conservative members of Con-
gress.

“We must search ourselves
for values which will allow us
to adapt to the rapidly chang-
ing challenges of the 20th Cen-
tury without jeopardizing the
great traditions of individual
liberties and freedoms which
are our heritage,” he said.

The conservative voters of
Virginia “wanted to maintain
the status quo as long as they
could,” Butler said, so they
elected representatives who

“had little troi|^0 ^
that sentiment or

He said these iny
to the top leader*^*
ran the functioi

ment and didn’t you

“Consequently
lie sentiment sl»
those in position
mained the san
the names or fac
changed, but pol

“The elected r
did not lead, t
Butler added.

But he predict «

197 cash

sues in the
election will
conservative v
than they have
time.

The “inevitable consequence”
of a tendency to ridicule new
ideas and “trade on the fears
of the electorate,” Butler said,
is to “inhibit development of
new ideas and leadership.”

Rep. Butler criticizes aw
Virginia's conservatism

DANVILLE (AP) -
Virginia’s conservatism has led
to abdication to the federal
government of “many respon-
sibilities that.. .should have

been assumed at the state
level,” says Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler, R-Va.

He told an audience at
Averett College here, Thursday
night that if conservatisnTisTo -
be meaningful, it must recog-
nize that the status quo cannot
prevail for long.

The 6th District Republican
encouraged state officials to
reexamine their priorities, “to
determine if the cause of con-
servatism is truly being served
by failure to move forward in
such sensitive areas as trans-
portation, public health, pollu-
tion, no-fault insurance, medi-
cal malpractice, medical stan-
dards, land use planning, en-
vironmental controls and day
care.”

The “inevitable conse-
quence” of a tendency to ridi-
cule new ideas and “trade on
the fears of the electorate,”
Butler said, is to “inhibit de-
velopment of new ideas and
leadership.”

As an example of how con-
servative Virginia’s politics
are, Butler said he was con-
sidered a moderate to liberal
when he was in the Virginia
General Assembly, but now he
is known as one of the most
conservative members of Con-
gress.

The conservative voters of
—

Virginia “wanted to maintain
the status quo as long as they
could,” Butler said, so they
elected representatives who
“had little trouble absorbing
that sentiment or executing
it.”

He said these officials “rose
to the top leadership positions,
ran the functions of govern-
ment and didn’t rock the boat.

“Consequently, even as pub-
lic sentiment slowly changed,
those in positions of power re-
mained the same. Sometimes
the names or faces or uniforms
changed, but policies did not.

“The elected representatives >
did not lead, but followed,.” ^
Butler added.

But he predicted that the
issues in the 1976 presidential
election will be more clearly
conservative versus liberal
than they have been for some
time.

The congressman noted th t
there’s a confrontation almost
daily between the fiscally cbh- ~
servative Ford Administration 3
and the liberally dominated -
Democratic majority in Cpri-
gress.

Bankruptcy

Conference

Scheduled

Sixth Dist. Rep. M. Caldwell
Butler and the Law School ai
Washington and Lee Univer
sity in Lexington will sponsoi
a Bankruptcy Conference to b<
held at the school Oct. 13.

The conference is slated t<
begin at 10 a.m. and end at '
p.m. with time out for lunch.

The conference seeks th<
benefit of members of the Bar
who deal with bankruptcy in
their practice.

According to Butler, the
Commission on Bankruptcy
Law of the United States, or-
ganized in 1970, has proposed a
new Bankruptcy Act.

The National Conference of
Bankruptcy Judges has also
submitted a proposal.

Both of the proposals are
before the Subcommittee of
the Judiciary of which Butler
is a member. Over 40 days of
hearings have been scheduled

on the law.

The conference, according
to Butler, is to help him do his
job, as well as provide an op-
portunity for interested per-
sons to have a dircet input into
the legislation.

The conference agenda in-
cludes various topics on
bankruptcy law and pro-
cedures.

THE NEWS, Lynchburg, Va., Fri., Sept. 19 . 1975

Zflo

Bankruptcy
law changes
up for talks

I sn^ft P * M j Ca , IdweU Butler has
announced plans for a bank-
Jniptcy conference Oct. 13 at

teS,* diversity

i £ bwillbe heId at the school
from 10 a.m. until 4 p.m.

I d P u 0po ! als for revision of the
| bankruptcy Act have been rec-
ommended to Congress by the
u. b. Commission on Bankrupt-

I fJ r Laws the Nat ionaI Con-
ference of Bankruptcy Judges.

The conference will be held
to discuss the two proposals

f. nd K th District members of
I [ b * b * r ass °ciation have been

Staunto

oik Va.,
CITY ft

Leader

, M^iday,

Sept. 22, 1975

HALL MEETING
A representative of U.S. Rep.
M. Caldwell Butler’s office will
be in Staunton City Council
Chambers at City Hall Thur-
sday from 1—5 p.m.

SIX

£°I0

M SiX r h J iSt n Ct Re P reser| tative
M. Caldwell Butler has an-
nounced plans for a Bankruptcy
Conference October 13 at

Washington W and^Lee is
^sponsoring the Conference

fr?m h ,n' beheld atthe School
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. October

Proposals for revision of the

Bankruptcy Act have been

recommended to the Congress

by the United States CoS

mi ® Si pn on Bankruptcy Laws

bant he Conference'#

bankruptcy Judges.

_ The conference will be a
forum for discussion of the two
proposals, and members of the

Dis r trtTt ati0 K fr0mthe Sixth

attend bee " invited to

The chief purpose of our I

evaluate" ih ^ l ° help me ’
us ’’ fimii e PfP 083 ^ before
’ Sutler said in announcing
the conference, “but it is also an

ar^yXmerica n a ^ I V. portant
The bankruptcy proposals are
ande *' consideration
^ C ™ 1 and Constitutional
Rights Subcommittee; Butler is
minori ty member of
that Subcommittee.

Persons interested in
ditional information
contact any 0 f
Congressman’s offices.

Staunton, Va., L eader, Monday,

Bankruptcy

conference set

Sixth District U.S. Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler has announced
plans for a bankruptcy con-
ference Oct. 13 at Washington
and Lee University in
Lexington.

The Law School of
Washington and Lee is
cosponsoring the conference,
which will be held at the school
from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Proposals for revision of the
Bankruptcy Act have been
recommended to the Congress
by the U.S. Commission on
Bankruptcy Laws and the
National Conference of
Bankruptcy Judges.

The conference will be a
forum for discussion of the two
proposals, and members of the
Bar Association from the 6th
District have been invited to
attend.

“The chief purpose of our
conference is to help me
evaluate the proposals before
us,” Rep. Butler said in an-
nouncing the conference, “but
it is also an opportunity for
Members of the Bar in our
district to have a direct input
into an important area of
American law.”

The bankruptcy proposals
are under consideration by the
Civil and Constitutional Rights
Subcommittee of the House
Judiciary Committee; Rep.
Butler is ranking minority
member of that Subcommittee.

Rep. Butler said that the
format of the conference will
be informal, but will follow an
agenda based on specific areas
of bankruptcy law which will
effected by the proposed
legislation.

Persons interested in ad-
ditional information may
contact anv of the
Congressman’s offices.

Area / State / Sports

Tuesday, September 23, 1975

Charles McDowell

Caldwell Butler
On Conservatism

WASHINGTON — Rep. M. Caldwell Butler of Roanoke served
10 years in the Virginia House of Delegates, where he was the
Republican leader. When he came to Congress three years ago,
he took the advice of his predecessor, Richard H . Pof f , to seek ap-
pointment to the Judiciary Committee “because it is a nice, quiet
place to learn the job while avoiding controversy.”

In that nice, quiet place, Butler soon was pitched into the
historic controversy over the impeachment of Richard Nixon,
and he had an important role in recommending impeachment.
Meanwhile, Butler has compiled a record as one of the most con-
servative members of Congress.

Recently, in Danville, at a forum sponsored by the West Pied-
mont Consortium of Colleges, Butler made a speech on conser-
vatism in Virginia. The following are excerpts from his text:

I SUSPECT THAT VIRGINIANS are more conservative than
the citizens of any other state in
the United States.

| H Let me compare my experience

|p in the General Assembly with that
|i| in Congress. When I went to the
III General Assembly in 1962, there
' were only five Republicans in the
House of Delegates.

Of course, being Republican, I
was not labeled conservative or
III liberal, but a Republican, and I
was treated like the embarrass-
ment we were — not as a retarded
child, more like a mentally dis-
turbed one. It could be cured if
anybody decided it was worth the
effort.

As a matter of fact, I was a
member of the House of
Delegates for six years before I
was ever appointed to a commit-
McDowell tee that met.

I was off the political spectrum, not a part of it.

In Congress, it is entirely different. You have to be careful and
not express an interest in anything, or you will find yourself on a
committee, or subcommittee, or task force, or special or select
committee. And, indeed, if you do not want to be vice president,
you ought to be quiet about that, too.

III

■■ ■?

I AND OTHER REPUBLICANS were agitating [in the General
Assembly] for removal of the poll tax, for election law reform
open meetings, more money for mental health facilities and
public education.

We were able to point out case after case where Virginia was on
the bottom or close to the bottom in every index of state govern-
. ment performance. And our warning was: Do these things
because it is your responsibility. If we don’t do them on the state
level, the federal government will. Of course, that is what hap-
pened. \ K

Contrast my liberal, far left activity in the General Assembly
with my standing in the Congress of the United States. A liberal to
moderate by every standard in the General Assembly of Virginia,

I now find myself counted among the most conservative mem-
bers of the Congress of the United States.

If your congressional representatives are in every way a
reflection of the people of Virginia, then you begin to comprehend
how truly conservative Virginia must be!

THE PEOPLE OE VIRGINIA are conservative by inclination
by heredity , by day and by night. They have chosen a government
which reflects their conservatism.

What is the impact of this public policy ip Virginia? The answer
is that the impact is total.

A cynic would call this an accumulated error. If you set your
clock by mine, and I set my clock by yours, and we do that often
enough, we accumulate the errors in each, and pretty soon we are
either way behind or way ahead.

We had for many years a limited electorate and an organization
whose political control was substantial. And one basic object of
that organization was survival, and its premise was : you can sur-
vive forever if you don’t get too far ahead of your troops
The elected representatives did not lead, but followed. The
classic exception must be the first administration of Mills
Godwin, which was adrastic change in thecourse and direction of
Virginia government engendered by a new awareness that the
two-party system through political debate had awakened
Virginians to the realization that their government was falling
short of its responsibilities in many areas.

NEW LEADERSHIP did not develop, and this is the major
shortcoming of the conservative Democratic organization. The
young leadership with new ideas was not encouraged. Indeed the
Young Turks of the early 1950s, who were systematically
eliminated from the General Assembly through total frustration
simply lost interest in politics.

As a result, when the showdown came for control of the
Virginia Democratic party - between the national liberal
Democrats on the one hand and the conservative, traditional
Virginia Democrats on the other (the Organization), the conser-
vatives could not produce the leadership necessary to retain con-
trol. The surviving conservative Virginia Democrats have been
frozen out pf the party, although there are a few that don’t know it
yet.

Sometime in the early 1970s, those people who found them-
selves cast out of the leadership responsibility found a home with
the Republican party, which is certainly more moderate than the
prevailing leadership of the state Democratic party, and that is
where we are at the moment.

The prevailing question, of course, is whether the Republican
party at the state level will be dominated by those who formerly
led the Democratic party or whether it will be dominated by those

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who carved out a more moderate image for the Republican Dai
and a more moderate place in the spectrum.

UNFORTUNATELY, a natural result of the conservati
approach to state government is to abdicate to the fedei
T G [T ent . ' ' many res P°nsibiiities that more appropriate
should have been assumed at the state level. It is almost too la
to change that trend.

Nonetheless. I would encourage the state to reexamine i
pnon ties to determine if the cause of conservatism is truly beii
served by failure to move forward in such sensitive areas as tra
sportation, public health, pollution, no-fault insurance, medic

standards ’ land use planning, environme
tai controls, day care.

I recognize that politicians elected in a conservative a
mosphere may find it easier to prevail on a platform resistant i
change, ridiculing new ideas and trading on the fears an
suspicions of the electorate.

But the inevitable consequence of this tendency is to inhib
development of new ideas and new leadership. If conservatism i
to be meaningful, it must assume the corollary obligation c
recognizing that the status quo cannot long prevail.

I AND OTHER REPUBLICANS were agitating [in the General
Assembly] for removal of the poll tax, for election law reform,
open meetings, more money for mental health facilities and
public education.

Contrast my liberal, far left activity in the General Assembly
with my standing in the Congress of the United States. A liberal to
moderate by every standard in the General Assembly of Virginia,
I now find myself counted among the most conservative mem-
bers of the Congress of the United States.

If your congressional representatives are in every way a
reflection of the people of Virginia, then you begin to comprehend
how truly conservative Virginia must be!

THE PEOPLE OF VIRGINIA are conservative by inclination ,
by heredity , by day and by night. They have chosen a government
which reflects their conservatism.

What is the impact of this public policy in Virginia? The answer
is that the impact is total.

The elected representatives did not lead, but followed. The
classic exception must be the first administration of Mills
Godwin , which was a drastic change in the course and direction of
Virginia government engendered by a new awareness that the
two-party system through political debate had awakened
Virginians to the realization that their government was falling
short of its responsibilities in many areas.

NEW LEADERSHIP did not develop, and this is the major
shortcoming of the conservative Democratic organization. The
young leadership with new ideas was not encouraged. Indeed, the
Young Turks of the early 1950s, who were systematically
eliminated from the General Assembly through total frustration
simply lost interest in politics.

As a result, when the showdown came for control of the
Virginia Democratic party — between the national liberal
Democrats on the one hand and the conservative, traditional
Virginia Democrats on the other (the Organization), the conser-
vatives could not produce the leadership necessary to retain con-
trol. The surviving conservative Virginia Democrats have been
frozen out <?f the party, although there are a few that don’t know it
yet.

Sometime in the early 1970s, those people who found them-
selves cast outof the leadership responsibility found a home with
the Republican party, which is certainly more moderate than the
prevailing leadership of the state Democratic party, and that is
where we are at the moment.

The prevailing question, of course, is whether the Republican
party at the state level will be dominated by those who formerly
led the Democratic party or whether it will be dominated by those

Continued on Page 4, Col. 3

Butler Co-Sponsor

Bankruptcy Meet Set
At W&L Law School

Sixth District Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler has an-
nounced plans for a
bankruptcy conference Oct.
13 at Washington and Lee
University.

The W&L Law School is co-

sponsoring the conference,
which will be held at the law
school from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Proposals for revision of
the Bankruptcy Act have
been recommended to the
Congress by the United States
Commission on Bankruptcy
Laws and the National
Conference of Bankruptcy
Judges.

The conference will be a
forum for discussion of the
two proposals, and members
of the bar association from
the 6th District have been
invited to attend.

“The chief purpose of our
conference is to help me
evaluate the proposals before
us',” Butler said in an-

nouncing the conference,
“but it is also an opportunity
for members of the bar in our
district to have a direct input
into an important area of
American law.”

The bankruptcy proposals
are currently under con-
sideration by the civil and
constitutional rights sub-
committee of the House
Judiciary Committee. Butler
is ranking minority member
of that subcommittee.

Butler said that the format
of the conference will be
informal but will follow an
agenda based on specific
areas of bankruptcy law
which will be affected by the
proposed legislation.

SECTION B September 24, 1975

The Bedford Bulletin-Democrat, September 25, 1975Sec. B, Page 1

Butler Explains Vote

On School Fund Bill

Rep. M f Caldwell Butler,
who represents this district in
the Congress, this week issued
a statement explaining his
vote to override President
Ford’s veto of the Education
Appropriation Bill. Mr. Butler
voted against the bill when it
passed the House before the
veto, but joined the big
majority which voted to
override.

The act as finally enacted is
$1.5 billion larger than the
education bill backed by the
Administration. This, said Mr.
Butler, “is quite substantial
and made this a very difficult
decision for me.” Further he
said:

“If the veto had been
sustained and the legislation
not been enacted into law, it
would have had the effect of
reducing the total amount of
federal education funds
available to the state of
Virginia in the amount of $66
millions, which would be
nearly 50 per cent below the
present budget level.”

Hilderbrand
Is Editor

John Roberts Hildebrand II,
630 Dogwood Drive, Salem, is
the Editor-in-Chief of Picket,
the student newspaper at
Shepherd College, Shepherds-
town, West Virginia.

The son of Mr. and Mrs.
John R. Hildebrand, Salem,
Hildebrand is a senior stu-
dent at Shepherd College,
majoring in political science,
and working toward the
bachelor's degree. He was a
1971 graduate of Andrew
Lewis High School, and earned
the Associate of Science de-
gree at Ferrum College in
1974.

Hildebrand is involved in
many campus activities other
than the newspaper editorship,
including participation in Stu-
dent Senate, Inter-Dormitory
Council, Inter - Dormitory
Council Judicial Board, and
chairman of the Student
Government Association's Bi-
centennial Committee.

In the summer of 1975,
Hildebrand served as an intern
on the staff of United States
Congressman M. Caldwell
Butler. In that position he
assisted the Congressman's
aides in research projects.
He has attended several
leadership conferences of the
Republican Party, and at-
tended a State Department
conference in 1971.

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14 THE NEWS-VIRGINIAN, Waynesboro, Va. Thursday, September 25, 1975

Congressmen Provide Data
On Tax Relief for Elderly

Valley Program for Aging
Services, Inc., has launched a
program to try to secure tax
relief for senior citizens who
continue to work part time after
receiving Social Security but
who have to pay the Social
Security tax on their' earnings.

Mrs. Jean Nichols, chairman
of the\oard, wrote to Rep. M.
Caldwell Butler to ask his
assistance in the matter and Mr.
Butler referred the matter to the
Subcommittee on Social
Security. James A. Burke,
chairman of the subcommittee,
has provided the following in-
formation about the situation:
“Present law requires that a
person must pay social security
contributions, regardless of his
age, and regardless of whether
he is getting benefits. Under the
original Social Security Act,
wages paid to a worker after he
had reached age 65 were ex-
cluded from coverage. They
were neither taxed nor credited
toward benefits. This exclusion
was removed by the 1939
Amendments to the Social
Security Act, which made basic
changes in the program,
broadening it from a worker’s
annuity system by adding
benefits for their survivors.

“The present provision has
afforded protection to people
who were already along in years
when the program began or
when it was first extended to
cover their work. Moreover, the
earnings that a person has after
he reaches age 65 may, under
certain circumstances, increase
his monthly benefit amount.
Under the law, the amount of the

monthly social security benefit
that a worker gets at age 65 is
based on his average monthly
earnings in covered employment
up to age 65. A person who works
beyond age 65 may have his
benefit amount increased, since
later years of higher earnings
may be substituted for earlier
years of lower earnings in
figuring benefits.

“Another consideration is that
the provisions for financing
social security benefits take into
account contributions paid on
earnings of workers who are age
65 or over. If such earnings were
not subject to social security
contributions, there would be a
reduction in the income to the
social security system without a
corresponding decrease in
outgo.

“You may be interested to
know, however, that there are
several bills currently pending
before the Ways and Means
Subcommittee on Social
Security which would provide
for full exemption of the FICA
tax in cases of individuals over
age 65.”

Mrs. Doris Anne Miller,
executive director for VP As,
wrote to Congressman William
C. Wampler who is ranking
member of the Subcommittee on
Retirement Income and Em-
ployment of the House Select
Committee on Aging.

He has provided the following
information.

“Social security beneficiaries
between the ages of 65 and 72
who continue to work are
penalized in two ways. They
must continue to pay social
security taxes on their wages,

and they also find that any in-
come over $2520 results in
decreases in their social security
benefits. Social security benefits
are often inadequate means of
support yet the law financially
discourages seniors from sup-
plementing their social security
benefits through employment.

“Numerous witnesses who
have appeared before our
subcommittee have pointed out
these inequities in the law. I
have introduced legislation to
remove the earnings limitation
on social security beneficiaries.

I believe that the sentiment of
the Congress is overwhelmingly
in support of raising the income
limitation to a more reasonable
level.

“On Sept. 11 a resolution was
passed by the Select Committee
on Aging urging the Ways and
Means Committee to speedily
consider the numerous bills
pending which would raise the
income limitation for social
security beneficiaries.

“The Select Committee on
Aging is an oversight, in-
vestigative committee which
cannot report legislation. We are
advocates for the elderly, and
we hope that we can get the
legislative committees to act
sympathetically and speedily on
legislation of importance to
senior citizens.

“As you know, legislation is
pending which would eliminate
the payment of social security
taxes by those over age 65 who
continue to work. These opposed
to eliminating the social security
taxation of those over 65 point
out that the Social Security Trust
Fund needs this money.

Sixth District
Representative M. Caldwell
sutler has announced plans
for a Ejmkruptey Conference
October 13 at Washington
and Lee University in
Lexington.

Law School of
Washington and Lee is
cosponsoring the Con-
ference, which will be held at
the School from 10:00 a.m. to
4:00 p.m. on Monday, Oc-
tober 13 .

Proposals for revision of
the Bankruptcy Act have
been recommended to the
Congress by the United
States Commission on

Conference

Bankruptcy Laws and the
National Conference of
Bankruptcy Judges.

The conference will be a
forum for discussion of the
two proposals, and members
of the Bar Association from
the Sixth District have been
invited to attend.

‘The chief purpose of our
conference is to help me
evaluate the proposals
before us,” Butler said in •
announcing the conference,
but it is also an opportunity
for Members of the Bar in
our district to have a direct
input into an important area
of American law.”

The bankruptcy proposals

are currently under con-
sideration by the Civil and
Constitutional Rights Sub-
committee of the House
Judiciary Committee;
Butler is ranking minority
member of that Sub-
committee.

Butler said that the format

ot the conference will be
informal, but will follow an
agenda based on specific
areas of bankruptcy law
which will effected by the
proposed legislation.

Persons interested in
additional information may
contact any of the
Congressman’s offices.

EDITORIALS

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1975

From

CAPITOL
HILL

By Alfreds L. Madison

These Congressmen !

THE DISCUSSIONS here on Capitol Hill this week have
been in three very interesting areas. Of course, there have
been committee hearings on Mr. Kissinger’s Israeli-
Egypt’s report. That will be discussed later. Both Houses
considered the Energy Bill veto and the education bill veto.

Well, as was expected, the Senate was unable to override
the President’s energy veto. As usual the loss is always by
from two to six votes.

Senator Jackson held hearings last week on the affects of
oil decontrol. Some of them were startling for the little
man.

MANY OF THESE service station concessionaries
testified to the harrassments they have received from the
big oil companies in an alleged attempt to drive them out of
business. One such owner stated that the salesman came
around almost daily and OKed all things around the service
station that the oil company was supposed to keep in shape
regardless of the run-down condition, and he constantly
found fault with the concessinaires’ upkeep. He stated that
his rent was also raised from $9,000 a year to $27,000.

Another service station leasee stated that because of
increased rent and charges, that the oil company placed on
him for equipment, that had been supplied wholly by the
company he was forced to increase his gasoline prices by a
few cents a gallon. Then, of course, the agent continued to
harrass him about not selling enough gas. He was told that
he would have to keep his station open longer daily. He said
that he was already opened fourteen hours a day.

THE SERVICE STATION owners were asked by the
wholesalers to reduce their margins and that there would be
an increase in charges for the use of credit cards. All of
these demands were made, even if it meant that the dealers
would operate at a loss.

Senator Jackson stated that the removal of oil price
controls will result in an immense shift in resources and
power towards the largest oil companies. The increase in
value of crude oil production these companies control will
result in a revenue jump for Exxon, Shell, Socal, Gulf, and
Amoco of at least a billion dollars, yearly, for each
company.

THE GREAT ECONOMIC power that these companies
will weild will drain dollars from other vital economic
sectors; from consumers and small businesses. The
average loss economically for each American family under
decontrol will be $300. This does not include any of the
influence decontrol will have on prices of other forms of
energy and associated effects which all agree could well
double.

For the most part, the vote to override the veto was as
usual along party lines with a few Republican defectors
voting with the Democrats and vice-versa.

SENATOR HUGH SCOTT in support of sustaining the
veto stated that President Ford had been very patient
concerning decontrol; that he had made certain
concessions. This gave the idea that, we the American
citizens, belong to the President and that we are begging
him to give us something.

From the action of Congress in being unable, in most
cases, to override the President’s veto inspite of a majority
of votes to do so, it seems that they share this serfdom view.
Mr. Ford belongs to us the people, and he, being the Chief
Executive of our supposedly democracy, is required to act
in behalf of the majority of its citizens, instead of the
gouging rich few.

ONE BRIGHT SPOT this week was the override of the
President’s veto of the education bill. On the days that the
bill was being discussed in the House and Senate, there
were crowds of educators and interested parties in the
galleries. When the vote showed that the veto had been
overridden by the House, there was a burst of applause
from the gallery. The Speaker of the House informed the
gallery occupants that they were not allowed to clap.
However, it was too late then, because they had already
finished applauding.

Virginians, take note: The three Virginia Congressmen
who voted to sustain the education bill veto and the oil
decontrol veto were: Mrs. Whitehurst of Norfolk, Mr.
Satterfield of Richmond and Mr. Dan Daniel of Danville. I
can’t find any more conservative voters on Capitol Hill than
these three. It’s my opinion that they vote against
everything that’s a benefit to the little man, and of course
that includes us. Be sure to give them the old ax the next

veto on both the education bill and oil decontrol bill. Senator Announcement of the fours years

Scott of Virginia voted to sustain both vetoes. If the

rumblings around here are correct, you don’t have to give

Mr. Scott the ax. The chips have already been cut from.his

trunk. So at the appropriate time it will tumble over into the

marsh with the quote from the New Times Magazine

written on its trunk: “the dumbest man in Congress.”

SO I’M AGAIN entrating blacks to hold meetings, invite
these elected officials, and instead of having speeches from
them have “fireside chats”. Lay it on the line with them.

Don’t be afraid to talk to them freely about gut issues as
they affect “YOU.”

I’m around on Capitol Hill, daily and I’ve found that these
elected officials aren’t so bright, either. If you think I’m
joking visit the Senate in action, and watch the old comic
Alphonse and Gaston comedy. It goes like this. “Will the
distinguished Gentleman from such and such state yield?”

“I’ll be glad to yeild to the distinguished gentleman from
such and such a state.” “I thank my distinguished
colleague.” “I feel like saying distinguished for what? Let
me in on it. I’m from a state too, since that seems to be all
they are know for.

So at your meetings with the Congressional officials the
vest least you' can get out of it is: one ignoramus talking
with another.

time around.

I’VE STATED IN A previous article that maybe we
should not look for a great liberal. I still hold that view.

However, we

we must realize that for ultra-ultra-

conservatives, instead of working with them, work on them state university has been
by removal from office. Mr. Caldwell Butler voted to approved for a $630,000
override the bill. This show that he is not entirely heartless. f e( j er ai grant to assist with
Once when he spoke to me about picking on him, I replied, the development of several
“I think you are a wonderful person, Congressman; you just new academic programs, a
need a little straightening out.” Maybe that can be done new recruitment effort, and
with at least these legislators who will lend a listening ear , improvements in its
and show a little humanity concern. registration office and

Senator Harry Byrd voted to override the President’s planning department.

THE ROANOKE TIMES, Saturday. September 27, 1975

Fund-Raising Foray

Rockefeller Roanoke-Bound

By MELVILLE CARICO
Times Political Writer

Vice President Nelson Rockefeller
will be in Roanoke on Oct. 16 to strengthen
his position for the No. 2 spot op the GOP
presidential ticket next year and, it is
hoped, to raise some money for 6th Dis-
trict Republican coffers.

State GOP Chairman George N. Mc-
Math said he personally extended the invi-
tation to Rockefeller after learning during
the last meeting of the National Republi-
can Committee in Washington that the
vice president was “available” that day.

There were rumors in state GOP cir-
cles earlier that Rockefeller wanted at
least two stops in Virginia, but his staff got
no encouragement from GOP leaders in
Richmond or the Hampton Roads area.

McMath /said this was not true; that
Rockefeller's schedule permitted only one
stop in Virginia and he suggested Roanoke
because, of the large number of Republi-
can candidates this year in the Shenan-
doanh. Valley and Southwest Virginia.

The vice president will arrive in mid-
afternoon from West Virginia where he

will make three stops earlier in the day
and then return to Washington after a
fund-raising reception in Roanoke.

Details, McMath said, are in charge of
the 6th District GOP committee headed by
William B. Poff of Roanoke which will ar-
range the reception and keep what profit
it produces.

The reception probably will be held at
Hotel Roanoke.

Rockefeller will hold a news confer-
ence soon after he arrives to which, Mc-
Math said, the public is invited to hear
reporters’ questions.

Rockefeller comes to Virginia with a
big bloc of GOP leaders ready to support
Ronald Reagan, former governor of Cali-
fornia, for the presidential nomination at
Kansas City— particularly if President
Ford wants Rockefeller for his running
mate in 76.

But McMath said at a news conference
Monday in Lynchburg he believes Rocke-
feller’s “image” among conservative Re-
publicans in Virginia has improved some
because of the conservative overtones in

his recent speeches in the South.

But the state GOP chairman hastened
to add that he believes these anti-Rocke-
feller Republicans would still support
someone “with a longer record of conserv-
atism.”

Supposedly, the Roanoke reception
for Rockefeller is to raise money for GOP
candidates for the General Assembly and
county offices but, inescapably, its politi-
cal emphasis will be on solidifying his own
and President Ford’s strength among Vir-
ginia Republicans.

Virginia will have 51 delegates at the
1976 convention at Kansas City.

In 1968, Rockefeller, then governor
New York, came to Roanoke for a recep-
tion at Hotel Roanoke during his cam-
paign for the GOP presidential
nomination.

Invitations were sent to hundreds of
influential Roanokers. The late Hazel K.
Barger of Roanoke, then a member of the
Republican National Committee, gave the
reception for Rockefeller and his recent
bride, “Happy.”

^ 1 L«yncnDurg, va., lues., Sept. 30, 107:

Butler Instrumental T g,
In Altering Measure

WASHINGTON - Sixth Dis-
trict Jftep^ M. Cald well Butler
' per suaded the Ho use of.Re pre- ~
sentatives Monday to delete a
— section of the Consumer Pro-
__duct Safety Commission Im-
. provementsAct bill vflfich~~
would have Jp^ven that com-
mission the ri ght to litigate itf

own cases

If Butler’s amendment is in-
cluded in the final version of
the bill, the commission will
continue its present practice of
channeling litigation through
the U.S. Department of Justice,

Butler told the congress that
it is essential that one govern-
ment agency-the Justice De-
partment— have the responsi-
bility for overseeing all federal
litigation in order to eliminate
duplication of effort and
ensure consistency in federal
court activity.

The Consumer Product Safe-
ty Commission improvements
Act is aimed at clarifying cer-
tain aspects of the Consumer
Product Safety Commission’s
authority.

That commission was estab-
lished in 1972 to protect citizens
from unreasonable risks in
consumer products.

The Senate passed its own

version of the Consumer Pro-
duct Safety Commission Im-
provements Act earlier this
year.

The Senate bill gives the
commission the authority to
litigate its own criminal and
civil cases under certain cir-
cumstances.

A Conference Committee
will be appointed to work out
differences to the House and
Senate versions of the legisla-
tion.

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